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Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

Indeed. It's talks like this that make me realize how erroneous the idea that natural selection is what's built the universe. I'm sorry, but simply having variation, selection, and heredity (um, so planets and stars and rocks have heredity?) results in anything that looks like design is bunk. How does she even explain the MEME of religion continuing to pervade humanity? There's no evolutionary basis for it, clearly. Yet there it is. I wish such creative and ambitious minds were used for something truly important, like saving ourselves from ourselves.

RE: TED | Talks | Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes" (video)