Hi Ron, The obvious ones would be Susan Blackmore - "The Meme Machine" the primer, without doubt, then Dan Dennett - "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and/or "Freedom Evolves" and/or his latest tome in the recently topical Faith debate "Breaking the Spell"
But in fact you can detach the subject from the language (we are not SOMists remember) - the concept existed long before the coining of the neologism "meme" by Dawkins. Look at "mimesis" in much other / older literature - E O Wilson, Owen Barfield, W V O Quine, Umberto Eco, Doug Hofstadter, ring bells off the top of my head (and dare I say, just about any FoggyFroggy PoMo). When reading about meme's specifically in the technical sense - written by SOMist scientists and scientific-style philosophers, keep your MoQish hat on - don't get hung-up on the "atomist" - " reductionist", "objectivist" slippery slope. Remember the arising of layers of meaning. (The reason I like Sue, is that she is very open-minded and also very Zen - even though she hasn't joined the dots with her "serious" scientific colleagues, except possibly Hofstadter - possibly an occupational "social" hazard of being taken seriously as an intellectual. Read some background about her on her website.) Regards Ian On 5/14/08, Ron Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian: > I'm a > memeticist as you may have noticed.) > > Ron: > Ian, I have been reading up on Memetics since you posted > This and it sounds very interesting. Besides the "selfish > Gene" by Dawkins, is there any other reading you would > Recommend? > thanks > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
