TED 2008.2 Susan Blackmore
February 28, 2008 by Chris | permalink
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/
memes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme - essentially a unit of cultural evolution.
Darwin - if you have creatures that vary, and if you have struggle for life so that nearly all of them die, and if the very few that survive passed on whatever it is that allowed them to survive, then they must be better off. evolution is essentially variation, selection and heredity. if you have these, then you MUST get evolution. This is the simple version of the principle of Universal Darwinism.
she started off well.
she showed a bunch of photos of toilet paper that has been folded. useless but a cultural artifact that has been spread around the world.
