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title: "Untitled 2"
aliases: Memes and the Eploitation of Imagination
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- article
- philosophy
- art
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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