quartz/content/notes/propogation-of-ideas.md

title	aliases	tags
Propagation of Ideas	Memes and the Eploitation of Imagination	article philosophy art

link:https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/memeimag.htm

The david and miriam mandel lecture american society for aesthetics oct 27 1989

How (or whether) are promotes human evolution or development

What is a Meme

Richard Dawkins defines a meme as: a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation

Art: all artifice, all human invention

The paper compares memes to genes and explores the way they evolve similar to genes