Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes In an interview with Wired, British scholar Susan Blackmore talks memes, ideas, human evolution, and also offers a possible explanation for the enduring "success" of the Paris Hilton meme: Presumably because it presses enough human buttons - you know, sex, greed, celebrity. Some memes will succeed because they make you talk about them even though you think they're bad. For example, a ... Read full entry
Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes
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