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Our newest invention based on The Selfish Gene and Super Bowl

The Selfish Gene is a book by Richard Dawkins that explores the idea that genes are inherently selfish in their pursuit of survival and reproduction. On the other hand, Super Bowl is an annual championship game of the National Football League in the United States consisting of the best teams from the AFC and NFC conferences. Now, imagine a world where genes were vying for a spot in the most…

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“Some people have a problem believing natural selection, that large complicated animals can come from ‘almost nothing’.” - Richard Dawkins. #evolution #creation #Reason #Logic #Skepticism #ScienceAndReason #Philosophy #SelfishGene #Oxford #Rationalism #Darwin #NaturalSelection https://www.instagram.com/p/CpPQLJxr4vMXgIF_7Uzl7lNRj3jHBz972kvOiM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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selfishgene o kadar haklısın ki...

[books-aremyescape]

Genetics are honestly the most interesting thing to me. This book is super good and definitely one I will re read to gain a full understanding. Based in biology, it has a loose philosophy feel and read that I need to read more than once. #selfishgene #richarddawkins #firsttimeread

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New top story on Hacker News: Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993)

New top story on Hacker News: Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993)

Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993) 15 by selfishgene | 6 comments on Hacker News.

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#Hacker News selfishgene Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2178379

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The Mental Gene: Memes

meme noun an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation. a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.

It is quite mind blowing to think of the concept of ideas as genes. As Richard Dawkins talks in his book, the Selfish Gene, ideas are also genes that must be passed on from people to people. He talks about genes like an organism, struggling to replicate itself, whereas the bad ones die out and the good enough ones live on. In this sense, the meme is not just simply a funny thing that people look at saying “Oh what’s 9+10″, but an idea that lives on. A mental gene, a mental idea that is passed on. But they are more or less like a virus because they don’t really ‘benefit’ the human survivability unless 9+10=21 is the most crucial equation that creates all laws of physics and its understanding would provide the human race with the understanding of immortality and meeting aliens, they just kind of feed on us just for us to become more stupid and killing other mental genes which may or may not be passed on.

The ideas that live on for a long time, in this manner, must be the ones we should be listening to. Or at least testing them out. Yet some of them are already engraved in our mental framework because some were taught by parents or something like that, like don’t take other people’s stuff, or be nice to other people, etc. Meme is a term for a much more powerful concept than just funny viral memes, but it spans to the realm of all knowledge that you and I have accumulated in the past. Like math, grammar, mannerism, language, the way you walk, posture, hairstyle, hygiene, social interaction, etc.

One of the chapters in the Selfish Gene is titled the immortal gene and says that genes can be immortal, because it can be replicated indefinitely if it can survive through all generations of the evolution of an organism, like the gene for creating a heart and the veins, etc. It is passed from mother to son for generations without changing a thing out of it. Maybe a few nicks and nacks to where exactly the veins would grow, how wide the aorta is, but a heart is a heart. The same applies to memes, they can be immortal if they are passed on. Because of the internet, any memes can be undying, but they die out in the end because, in the end, it is humans who ‘inherit’ these mental genes. 

Who remembers the Large Hadron Collider Rap? Some might never even heard of it. A much less population knows about that meme because it is getting drowned by a full sea of memes. If Richard Dawkins’ ideas from the first chapter about the replicators is right, then these memes will slowly get more and more refined. In the end the good ones probably would never die, like the educational videos on TEDEd or KhanAcademy. The true memes, are the good ones. But for now, I think we can let the stuupit ones live on, at least until it dies out.

#ponder SelfishGene Memes

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"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish"

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Rational self interested people vs. Altruism

I've always been taught and believed people are self-interested/rational humans. In other words, people act in their own best interest. This helps society because, as the saying goes, it is not the benevolence of the butcher that gets his meat on ur table(paraphrasing Adam Smith). But upon reading The Selfish Gene, i am confused. How can a species be selfish even if it does practice altruistic actions? Im new to this and i guess I'm confused and had to type it out!! Any one want to have a discussion on this? ^_^

#selfishGene #adam smith #richard dawkins #invisible hand #question

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A continuation of a design idea I had that involved visualising choice snippets of lyrics from my favourite bands. This is from a song called Selfish Gene by Panda Bear. The text dictated the whole look of this design, which is unsurprisingly a little ttrriipppyy.

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An Appetite For Wonder

I am reading Richard Dawkins’ memoir An Appetite For Wonder. While I often enjoy memoirs and the almost voyeuristic look into the sanitized semi-accurate reflections of an individual upon his or her life, I must admit Dawkins’ memoir is thus far a disappointment. Indeed, it is only because I refuse to start a book and then abandon it that I am still actually reading it. I also signed up to hear him speak on this very book at the Miami Book Fair. The second half of the book is actually quite fantastic in a technical sense. I have at least three good reasons to finish the book. 

There is something about a book filled with the reflections of an English man who was born in Kenya who is rightly reflecting on the glorious life he has led that caused me severe discomfort.

Unfortunately, his story cannot be told or divorced from the backdrop of his illustrious family’s ability to capitalize on British imperialism in order to freely roam the planet.

As an East-African refugee, I couldn't help but read his reflections through the lens of colonization.

While many of you who read the memoir may gaze at the family photos based in Africa with a sense of a wonder, I was thinking:

“You did not have permission to be there. None of you did. You attended a private school in Kenya because of countless acts of violence and brutality."

What I understood to be amusing on an intellectual level fell flat when it hit my stomach. What I knew ought to be thought provoking would send me on a quest to line up the dates of his forefathers lives with the end of mine.

I couldn't help but see my grandfather’s story in the backdrop of his. I was reading about Dawkins’ life but I was thinking about my grandfather death. If my grandfather’s story were ever written, it would be a story pieced together from the perspective of those in the background in which the characters in Dawkins’ memoir are the foreground.

I understand that one need not identify with a text or an author to appreciate the work. It is clear to me that my inability to lose myself in this memoir (which according to me is the true test of a memoir) is a result of my personal features, history and nationality.

His memoir left me ambivalent, uncertain and with a renewed commitment to reread The Selfish Gene and figure out if I too belong to the class of individuals who mistake the entire organism as the “fundamental unit of natural selection.”

I love the shit out of his other work. I am an especially big fan of the ruthlessness with which he disposes of religious arguments. I will finish the damn memoir and then I will listen to one of the world’s foremost intellectuals reflect on his life in person. And I will be inspired and feel incredibly privileged and many of you will be jealous.

That is pretty damn glorious.

Recommendation: 

You should read the memoir. The first 168 pages you can skim. The chapter titled “Learning The Trade” is where you begin to get insight into the Richard Dawkins we think we know.

Final Grade:1st half: C+; 2nd half: A+

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