A memeplex is a set of memes which, while not necessarily being good survivors on their own, are good survivors in the presence of other members of the memeplex. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
I admit that it left me a bit confused: you dwell on trivial points of logic but I'm not sure how you want to apply it to determine which concepts require additions to your lexicon ( "memeplex"). ❋ Unknown (2009)
It also employs the imagery of a matrix or lattice to illustrate the memeplex being made up of individual, discrete consciousnesses experiencing a collective and individual transformation through the propagation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On another level this phenomenon - both the practice and the horrified reactions - offers a different aspect of the fearsome internet memeplex. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlike physical diseases, where people may be infected with multiple differing phages simultaneously like measles AND the flu, a totalizing memeplex must have SOLE possession of its niche, or it cannot be said to possess it at all. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In fact, evolution is an explicit module of this memeplex; whereas holy texts were forever frozen in their revealed forms, constitutions could be amended or modified by elected representatives responding to popular consensus in the face of changing circumstances, like species evolve in response to natural selection acting via changing environments. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In this second stage of the process, memes were selected against the background of already existing meme pools, building up a new memeplex of mutually compatible memes. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
In a way, the principle of ecclesiastical or commissar vote was generalized to encompass the entire citizenry just as, in prior times, the Gutenberg printing press wrested the holy texts away from their elite cadres and made them available for perusal and judgment to all literate citizens, and a new memeplex has thus evolved; the constitutional democracy memeplex ❋ Unknown (2006)
Some religious ideas survive because they are compatible with other memes that are already numerous in the meme pool - as part of a memeplex. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
This appeal renders it likely that the constitutional democracy memeplex can, by offering people the opportunity to achieve concrete and actual this-world economic benefits, expanded ranges of personal choice, and genuine political empowerment, successfully compete for their cognitive memespace with the abstract and hypothetical next-world paradisiacal promises and infernal threats proferred to them by the Wahhab/Qutb memeplex. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It also had the advantage of spreading the genetic sacrifice idea beyond a tribe, so that multiple tribes sharing the same memeplex could band together and both protect each other and cooperate in the confrontation of common enemies a feature that the Roman Empire put to conscous use when they adopted Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire. ❋ Unknown (2006)
How do we, as free, democratic and tolerant societies, deal with the aggressive encroachments of this virulent memeplex? ❋ Unknown (2006)
On this model, Roman Catholicism and Islam, say, were not necessarily designed by individual people, but evolved separately as alternative collections of memes that flourish in the presence of other members of the same memeplex. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
However, with the evolution of Christianity from Judaism, the ethnic imperative and the geographical rootedness were pruned off, and all one had to do was to accept the memeplex. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The memeplex of Judaism originally involved a divine gift of a particular parcel of land to a particular chosen people – Israel for the Jews although, lately, converts to Judaism, although not sought, are accepted from every racial and ethnic classification. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Muslim memeplex explicitly substitutes coercion for persuasion. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Maaari naming gawin ang isang pluralist diskarte sa tradisyonal na kabanalan. hanapin ko komportable sa Taoism, Discordia , isang masaganang interpretasyon ng Jesus na nagbubukod Paul whatta uto-uto, isang maliit na Shinto, isang umpog ng Islam, Solomon ay cool, ang isang fav ang Bohdidharma, atbp, atbp May isang maliit na piraso ng katotohanan sa bawat relihiyon memeplex, ngunit ito ay hindi lubos Agnostism. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Thus the parameters for the growth of the Jewish memeplex were set by the nature of the memeplex itself – only within ethnic Jews, who were only promised dominion over historical Israel most Zionists still think this way. ❋ Unknown (2006)
