Summary of Richard Brodie's Virus of the Mind

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#1 A meme is like a Beethoven symphony. It’s a good example of how the word can be used. A library is just a book’s way of making another book. memes have to do with human beings. If you make a bunch of photocopies of a document, that doesn’t give it good memes. But if people start memorizing and reciting them, it’s a good meme.

#2 A meme is an information unit that is imitated. It is the basic unit of imitation. The question of what are the interesting memes is the right one to ask.

#3 The meme is the secret code of human behavior, and it has a central place in the new paradigm of life and culture. It explains how cultural evolution takes place from the point of view of the meme, rather than the point of view of an individual or society.

#4 The biological definition of a meme is the basic unit of cultural transmission. Everything we call culture is made up of atomlike memes that compete with one another to spread from mind to mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822503700

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Insights on Richard Brodie's Virus of the Mind

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

A meme is like a Beethoven symphony. It’s a good example of how the word can be used. A library is just a book’s way of making another book. memes have to do with human beings. If you make a bunch of photocopies of a document, that doesn’t give it good memes. But if people start memorizing and reciting them, it’s a good meme.

#2

A meme is an information unit that is imitated. It is the basic unit of imitation. The question of what are the interesting memes is the right one to ask.

#3

The meme is the secret code of human behavior, and it has a central place in the new paradigm of life and culture. It explains how cultural evolution takes place from the point of view of the meme, rather than the point of view of an individual or society.

#4

The biological definition of a meme is the basic unit of cultural transmission. Everything we call culture is made up of atomlike memes that compete with one another to spread from mind to mind.

#5

The definition of a meme is the unit of cultural heredity that is analogous to the gene. It is the internal representation of knowledge that results in outward effects on the world.

#6

The cognitive definition of a meme is an idea that is spread by physical manifestations that are the vehicles for the spread of the meme. The distinction of a meme-carrying vehicle is not as clear-cut as in biology, where organisms are vehicles for the spread of DNA.

#7

A meme is a unit of information that is passed from mind to mind and influences events such that more copies of it get created. The famous Beethoven Fifth