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今天，东行记上关于"学习易生的CT思维"一文中提到"信息技术环境下的MEME"的新概念，那么，什么是MEME呢？在信息时代，MEME对人类社会的发展会产生什么影响呢？对教育会产生什么影响呢？
欢迎感兴趣的同学和老师一起来研究MEME。
下面是WIKI百科上关于MEME的解释：
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Meme, (rhymes with "cream" and comes from Greek root with the meaning of memory and its
derivative "mimeme"), is the term given to a unit of information that replicates from brains
and inanimate stores of information, such as books and computers, to other brains or stores
of information. The term meme was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his bestselling book,
The Selfish Gene. Inanimate sources of information have been termed 'retention systems'.
In more specific terms, a meme is a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having some
resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics). The difference lies in the replicative
potential and minimally required resources to replicate. Memes can represent parts of ideas,
languages, elemental particles, tunes, designs, skills, moral and aesthetic values and
anything else that is commonly learned and passed on to others as a unit. The study of
evolutionary models of information transfer is called memetics.
The smiley is an example of a visual meme. Having seen it one is likely to copy, reproduce,
or modify it and then show it to others.In casual use, the term meme is sometimes used to
mean any piece of information that is passed from one mind to another. This is much closer
to the analogy of "language as a virus" than it is to Dawkins's analogy of memes as
replicating behaviors. Memes on the internet tend to proliferate for periods of time then
quietly die off, and many start as obscure running jokes within net cliques which gradually
lose their original meaning or otherwise become detached. Some people consider absurdist
humor to be a good source of memes.
"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which
he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be
reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
关于MEME的介绍目录:
Contents
1 History of the meme concept
2 Memetics
3 Memetic evolution
3.1 Do cultures evolve?
3.2 Propagation of Memes
4 Biological analogies
4.1 Thoughts as discrete units
4.2 Evolution of memes
4.3 Evolutionary forces affecting memes
4.4 Memetic virus exchange?
4.5 Non-natural selection
4.6 Reproductive isolation in meme 'speciation'
5 Forms taken by memes in the brain
5.1 The "be happy" and "make others happy" memes
5.2 Religion
5.3 Meme resistance
6 Examples of memes
7 References
8 See also
9 External links
关于Meme的更详细的了解在WIKI百科全书：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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