Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century

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memetics, cultural evolution, philosophy of science, artificial societies

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Derek Gatherer

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>	2005
<mark>Journal</mark>	Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
Volume	6
Publication Status	Published
<mark>Original language</mark>	English

Abstract

In summary, memetics can survive as a data-oriented branch of the social simulation field specializing in the evaluation of co-evolutionary or cultural models. Most of that evaluation will be negative, as the nature of the real world can never be confirmed using a computer model. Nevertheless, it may help us to identify cases where our a priori thinking about a cultural phenomenon is inadequate. Karl Popper would have been pleased with this.

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