Memetics

A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html

alt.memetics bibliography

A comprehensive bibliography of Memetics and related topics.
http://maxwell.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/faq.html

UK Memes Central

Includes texts by Dr Susan Blackmore and links to other articles online.
http://www.memes.org.uk/

Structure of Memes

The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical ph
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMSTRUC.html

MemeSpace

A virtual community for bright people who love memetics.
http://memes.org

A Memetic Analysis of Policy Making

Presents a memetic framework for the analysis of policy making based on three concepts from evolutionary theory: interaction, replication, and lineage.
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1997/vol1/speel_h-c.html

Meme Central

FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, "Virus of the Mind".)
http://www.memecentral.com/

Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics

Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography.
http://aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/

Memetics and Synthetic Intelligence Discussion Corner

Discussions of the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer, with focus on creativity, memes, replicators, language, ideas, evolution, computers, viruses, knowledge, artificial intelligence, brain and the mind.
http://databank.oxydex.com/m2.html

Persistence of Memes

Collection of philosophical essays on memetics and the evolution of culture.
http://www.geocities.com/persistentmemes/articles.html

Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology

Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how.
http://www.culturalsoftware.com

Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon

Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end t
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/benzon.html

Memento

The home page of the open source Memento project - a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics.
http://www.memento.org

Mind viruses in Russia

Internet review in Russian publication on memes, mind viruses and mind epidemics.
http://www.ussr.to/All/virus_star/index.html

Memes - Susan Blackmore

A detailed site maintained by the psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore.
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/

The Electric Meme

Information about the book by Robert Aunger.
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~rva20/EMeme.html

Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene''

The text that started off the science of memetics.
http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html

Journal of Memetics

Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission.
http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/

Memesis symposium

Symposium on the Net
http://www.aec.at/meme/symp/

How can we die if we are not alive?

Explanation of memetics by analogy of computers.
http://home.ntelos.net/~write/memes.html

Memetics

A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria.
http://memetics.chielens.net/

Neobiology & Ethetics

The neobiological model iindicates that all living systems, genetic and memetic belong to the realm of biology, ethetics is the field which encompasses all self-perpetuating algorithmic structures, including genetics and memetics.
http://neobiology.earthsociety.org/

Memes: Self-Replicants or Mysticism?

Debate on memes between Aaron Lynch and Richard Barbrook.
http://hotwired.wired.com/braintennis/96/43/index0a.html