From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon 10 Feb 2003 - 08:15:44 GMT
Don't forget, those of you who are within reach of
central London, that Sue Blackmore is speaking at the
Victoria Park Plaza Hotel (http://www.vp-sw1.com) at
5.15pm on Wednesday. For a free ticket and programme
for the free parts of the rest of the event, go to:
http://www.infotechpharma.com and click on Free
Exhibition on the left hand bar. There is actually
quite an interesting free session tomorrow (Tuesday)
at 2.30pm on Systems Biology with David Fell from
Oxford Brookes University, and on Thursday there is a
NASA module demonstration at 10.30am.
This is what the web site now says:
Guest Keynote Presentation:
Dr Susan Blackmore
The Evolution of Meme Machines
We humans are all meme machines. So are the
photocopiers and telephones, computers and web servers
that we have built to help us. But why are they
changing so fast, and were they really designed for
our benefit?
According to the theory of memetics, they were all
designed by memetic evolution for the sake of the
memes themselves. Like genes, memes are replicators.
That is, they are information that is copied with
variation and selection, which makes an evolutionary
process possible. As with other evolutionary
processes, memetic or cultural evolution happens for
the benefit of the replicators themselves, in this
case the memes. The internet, the web and all its
consequences are just what we should expect of the
rapidly accelerating evolution of meme machines.
Dr Susan Blackmore has done many interviews for
television, and presented programmes, including a
"Horizon" on alien abductions and 'The cleverest ape
in the world' for Channel 4. She is now more
interested in science, especially evolution,
evolutionary psychology, memetics, meditation, and
altered states of consciousness.
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk
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