Genes Quote by Susan Blackmore

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping…

— Seth Lloyd

The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are…

— Camille Paglia

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

— Susan Blackmore

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we…

— Susan Blackmore

'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our…

— Susan Blackmore

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

— Susan Blackmore

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines…

— Susan Blackmore

Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe…

— Susan Blackmore

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live…

— Susan Blackmore

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

— Susan Blackmore

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people…

— Susan Blackmore

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's…

— Susan Blackmore

“virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the “well-formed consciousness” that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies.”

— Peter H. Gregory

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

— Nicholas Wade

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -…

— Jacques Monod