Memetics

Ideas, information transmission, and cultural evolution.

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Memetics

Memetics & the Imago Dei

Memetics treats culture as something that replicates, and the Imago Dei says people are made in the image of God. Digital society makes the tension between those claims easier to see.

Phil Linley5 min read

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What Is Memetics?

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976)

A short introduction to memetics, the study of how ideas and cultural information spread, and the questions I want to chase.

Memetics

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