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RE: The Sudden Decline of War

in #history • 8 years ago

Yeah, at this point it's become a theory (in the scientific sense) so it's pretty common knowledge. But it was The Selfish Gene which first proposed it as a hypothesis, much like On the Origin of Species did for natural selection.

Oh, I meant speciation - that happens gradually. As for singularity, that is happening very soon! I'm willing to bet by 2050 we are deep into it.

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    It should be made well known that Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" in the Selfish Gene, and that's back in 1970s!

    Yes, I'd also wager that 2040-2050 we'd be quite deep into it already, or at least some parts of society.

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    Here's the passage from The Selfish Gene -

    The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. "Mimeme" comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like "gene". I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to "memory", or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with "cream".

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