Susan Blackmore: Meme

Susan Blackmore is British writer and academic. Explore interesting quotes on meme.

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“Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.”

Susan Blackmore

"Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes", Wired.com, 2/29/2008

People , Appearance

“If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.”

Susan Blackmore

Life lessons http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5164417-111414,00.html, Guardian, 04/07/2005

Way , Universe

“Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.”

Susan Blackmore

- Susan Blackmore, interview in MungBeing