On Selfish Memes

Details On Selfish Memes On Selfish Memes

2004-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0404035v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

14 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We present the formal definition of meme in the sense of the equivalence between memetics and the theory of cultural evolution. From the formal definition we find that culture can be seen analytically and persuade that memetic gives important role in the exploration of sociological theory, especially in the cultural studies. We show that we are not allowed to assume meme as smallest information unit in cultural evolution in general, but it is the smallest information we use on explaining cultural evolution. We construct a computational model and do simulation in advance presenting the selfish meme power-law distributed. The simulation result shows that the contagion of meme as well as cultural evolution is a complex adaptive system. Memetics is the system and art of importing genetics to social sciences.

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