Susan Blackmore at TED.com
Written on June 4, 2008
Susan Blackmore’s recent TED Talk on memes and “temes” (techno-memes) is up at TED and, if all goes well, embedded above.
Blackmore wrote one of the best books on the concept of memetics — The Meme Machine — and is also known to consciousness investigators as author of Consciousness: An Introduction, Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human, and more.
update 6/5 -Blackmore has a bibliography on memetics at her website.
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it is not bad to read books by Blackmore if you are an absolute beginner in memetics. It is also really very smart to depart from Blackmore in that instant when you start to understand a bit about memetics. All smart people have left memetics when Blackmore joined the science.
Her performance on TED is a theatrical show, like Al Gore’s The incovenient truth, a lot about emotions and minimum of logical thinking, well, that’s Blackmore. She misses the decisive 1% of logic that makes out a smart human being, she’s average, as everybody.
You may want to read books by other authors, or listen to them, there are much better, much smarter authors, equipped with perfect logical way of thinking, which makes them so different from Blackmore.
After some time of studying memetics you may find that for yourself. So go ahead and do that.
borek123456, Thanks for the comment. What books do you recommend on memetics?