Quotes by Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore

‘Temes’ [technology-enhanced memes] don’t care about us – they simply want to create more of themselves. Don’t think we created the internet for our own benefit – think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

Benefits

Technology

Thinking

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Inspiration

Machines

Motivation

All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming … We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and “I” own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.

Afterlife

Long

Self

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic.

Perception

Thinking

Tree

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

Consciousness

Illusion

Memes

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population – weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example…

Musician

People

Work Out

For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed.

Bird

Flu

Population

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Consciousness

Free Will

Self

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins’ idea and extending it.

Brain

Ideas

Needs

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

Religious

Way

Would Be

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Afterlife

Benefits

Bird

Body

Brain

Clever

Consciousness

Creating

Creativity

Design

Flu

Found

Free Will

Giving

Growing

Heart

Home

Ideas

Illusion

Inspiration

Long

Machines

Males

Mammals

Memes

Mind

Mistake

Modern

Motivation

Musician

Needs

Past

People

Perception

Population

Progress

Quality

Real

Rejection

Religious

Self

Sex

Study

Taken

Technology

Thinking

Tree

Two

Use

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Quotes by Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore

‘Temes’ [technology-enhanced memes] don’t care about us – they simply want to create more of themselves. Don’t think we created the internet for our own benefit – think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population – weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example…

For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins’ idea and extending it.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

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