TY - JOUR
T1 - Simple memes and complex cultural dynamics
AU - Batten, David
AU - Bradbury, Roger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Regions and their policies are built on many things, such as ideas, actions, habits, skills, inventions, songs and stories, to name a few. This paper views all of these as selfish Darwinian entities - memes - that, like genes, interact and replicate in complex ways with humans to shape our culture. Perniciously, simple memes can exploit our limited capacity to deal collectively with complex problems. Whether good or bad, a single, omnipotent meme can dominate a local region of meme-space. Most arguments in this paper originated at a workshop on ‘‘Memes as Complex Systems’’ held in Canberra from 13-17 August, 2004 and funded by CSIRO’s Centre for Complex Systems Science (see Batten et al. 2007).
AB - Regions and their policies are built on many things, such as ideas, actions, habits, skills, inventions, songs and stories, to name a few. This paper views all of these as selfish Darwinian entities - memes - that, like genes, interact and replicate in complex ways with humans to shape our culture. Perniciously, simple memes can exploit our limited capacity to deal collectively with complex problems. Whether good or bad, a single, omnipotent meme can dominate a local region of meme-space. Most arguments in this paper originated at a workshop on ‘‘Memes as Complex Systems’’ held in Canberra from 13-17 August, 2004 and funded by CSIRO’s Centre for Complex Systems Science (see Batten et al. 2007).
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01017-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01017-0_6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84902297611
SN - 1430-9602
VL - 59
SP - 97
EP - 105
JO - Advances in Spatial Science
JF - Advances in Spatial Science
ER -