The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment

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differential "fitness", or the opportunity for one element to be more or less suited to the environment than another.

Dawkins noted that in a society with culture a person need not have biological descendants to remain influential in the actions of individuals thousands of years after their death:Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.” – George Eliot Burman, J. T. (2012). "The misunderstanding of memes: Biography of an unscientific object, 1976–1999". Perspectives on Science. 20 (1): 75–104. doi: 10.1162/POSC_a_00057. S2CID 57569644. Nahon, Karine; Hemsley, Jeff (2013). Going viral. Cambridge, England: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745671284. OCLC 849213692. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023 . Retrieved 23 January 2023. Trivers, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man (pp. 136–179). Chicago: Aldine. These people always think first about themselves and are greedy by nature. It’s heartbreaking to come across fake friends who can betray you anytime, so always take time to trust people. #SelfishQuotes

Selfishness is a trait that can have a significant impact on our personal and professional relationships. Biological evolution is a change in the statistical distribution of biological (phenotypic or genetic) traits within a population (or a set of populations). Whether and how this statistical distribution changes can be explained in terms of two sets of factors (and of the interactions between them): transmission factors and selection factors. Let us consider them in turn. Organisms are causally connected with their descendants by means of what are sometimes called "inheritance channels". These channels are transmission factors. Genetic transmission is the most important of these channels but -- as I have argued elsewhere (Mameli 2004) -- it is not the only one. These causal connections between the generations are responsible for the extent to which (and for the way in which) organisms resemble their offspring. Thereby, such causal connections affect the extent to which (and the way in which) the statistical distribution of a trait in a given generation depends on the statistical distribution of that trait (or some related traits) in the previous generation. Explanations of changes in the distribution of traits that appeal to selection factors, in contrast, refer not to the features of inheritance channels but to the way biological traits affect the chances that organisms have of surviving and reproducing. Selection occurs when a trait increases in frequency because it makes the organisms that possess it more likely to do things that result -- through reproduction -- in the existence of other organisms with the same trait. As Bill Wimsatt has pointed out, the distinction between transmission factors and selection factors is in some cases blurred (Wimsatt 1999), but in general it provides a theoretically fruitful way of analysing biological change. A decade into the future, and hiphop has thrown its code indiscriminately into the meme pool—it is immanent, endemic, ubiquitous. He argued that the role of key replicator in cultural evolution belongs not to genes, but to memes replicating thought from person to person by means of imitation. These replicators respond to selective pressures that may or may not affect biological reproduction or survival. [21] Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

What is "The Selfish Meme"?

The word ‘meme’ was coined in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Although, more than forty years on, most people associate memes with the notion of Internet memes, it is helpful to return to Dawkins’ original definition to understand the theory of memetics and its differences from other theories of cultural evolution. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”- Erich Fromm Archive Librarian. 2015. Bereshit Ranbbah. The ethics of suicide digital archive. https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/bereshit-rabbah/ (accessed 21 September 2020). Search in Google Scholar Kilroy was here" was a graffito that became popular in the 1940s, and existed under various names in different countries, illustrating how a meme can be modified through replication. This is seen as one of the first widespread memes in the world. [30] Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” – Oscar Wilde

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JANELLE BROWN, WIRED NEWS: And the next thing you know, his friends have forwarded it on and it's become a net meme. has not only been of an experimental nature ( Bandura, et al., 1963, Wheeler and Caggiula 1966, Wheeler and Levine 1967, Wheeler and Smith 1967, Goethals and Perlstein 1978), but Huxley, T. H. (1880). "The coming of age of 'The origin of species' ". Science. 1 (2): 15–20. doi: 10.1126/science.os-1.2.15. PMID 17751948. S2CID 4061790. In this fast-moving world, it’s difficult to come across true and honest friends. We often bump into fake people and friends who pose to be our close ones, but should not be trusted. Hull, David L. (2001). "Taking memetics seriously: Memetics will be what we make it". In Aunger, Robert (ed.). Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science (1sted.). Oxford University Press. pp.43–67. ISBN 9780192632449.

The Internet and a New Meaning of 'Meme'

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