You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

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

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.

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.

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

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