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The Meme Machine

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                From the Foreword by Richard Dawkins

I was always open to the possibility that the meme might one day be
developed into a proper hypothesis of the human mind, and I did not
know how ambitious such a thesis might turn out to be. Any theory
deserves to  be   given its best shot, and that is what Susan
Blackmore has given the theory of the meme. I do not know whether she
will be judged too ambitious  in this enterprise, and I would even
fear for her if I did not know her redoubtable qualities as a
fighter. Redoubtable she is, and hard nosed too, but at the same time
her style is light and personable. Her thesis undermines our most
cherished illusions (as she would see them) of individual identity
and personhood, yet she comes across as the kind of individual person
you would wish to know. As one reader I am grateful for the courage,
dedication and skill she has put into her difficult task of memetic
engineering, and I am delighted to recommend her book.

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      Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
                 1999, hardback ISBN 0-19-850365-2.
                  2000 paperback ISBN 0-19-286212-X

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