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portada Darwinian Creativity and Memetics
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.6x15.7x2 cm
Weight
0.43 kg.
ISBN13
9781844652563
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Darwinian Creativity and Memetics

Maria Kronfeldner (Author) · Routledge · Hardcover

Darwinian Creativity and Memetics - Kronfeldner, Maria

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Synopsis "Darwinian Creativity and Memetics"

The author examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes. Both theories try to describe and explain mind and culture by applying Darwinism by way of analogies. The author shows that the analogies involved in these theories lead to claims that give either wrong or at least no new descriptions or explanations of the phenomena at issue. Whereas the two approaches are usually defended or criticized on the basis that they are dangerous for our vision of ourselves, this book takes a different perspective: it questions the acuteness of these approaches. Darwinian theory is not like a dangerous wolf, hunting for our self image. Far from it, in the case of the two analogical applications addressed in this book, Darwinian theory is shown to behave more like a disoriented sheep in wolf's clothing.

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