34 Quotes by Susan Blackmore

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.

'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.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

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

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.