Dennett, Daniel
<p class="default">09:09 PM, August 05, 2007</p>
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see Dan Dennett's video at TED in 2002.</p>
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He starts with an ant that crawls up a blade of grass and stays there.
Is it a fluke? Yes it is. An actual fluke that cows need to digest food and
ants are the vector. Fluke makes them go up the blade of grass.</p>
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Do we have anything like that?
Yes... memes ... ideas that grab hold of us.</p>
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Example: Shakers advocated celibacy and are now extinct (duh).</p>
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Has anyone died for any other memes ... yes communism, Islam, Catholicism, etc.</p>
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Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976.</p>