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“To be is to stand for.”

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Abraham Joshua Heschel was a renowned rabbi and Jewish scholar, born on January 11, 1907, and passed away on December 23, 1972. He had a profound impact on religious philosophy, Jewish theology, and moral ethics. more

“We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”

Ifs World Way Whole Earth Turns Birth Pure Built Machines Creator Selfish Tyranny Rebel Genes Altruism World History Nurturing Indoctrination Cultivating Disinterested Memes Selfish Gene

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.”

Kind Conditions Evolution Arise Copies Subservient Selfish Gene

Book:The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.”

Natural Brain Ultimate Agree Bottom Spread Contribution Colleagues Selection Criteria Natural Selection Receptive Memes Turncoats

Book:The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.”

Mind Humans Order Brain Havens Depends Reaching Human Mind Human Brain Habitat Artifacts Memes Restructure

Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life

“Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.”

Mind Capacity Competition Entry Memes

Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?”

World Home Brain Imagine Safe Memes

Book:The Meme Machine

Source: The Meme Machine

“Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.”

Mind Body Term Natural Design Understood Selection Natural Selection

Author:Susan Blackmore

“Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.”

Thinking Wells Doe Two Language Theory Evolution Approach Creating Selection New Approach Evolution Of Language

Book:The Meme Machine

Source: The Meme Machine

“A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.”

People Realizing Carpet Short Time

Author:Hulk Hogan

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