Susan Blackmore
Psychologist & Consciousness Researcher | The Evolution of Mind
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Susan Blackmore is a renowned psychologist and visiting professor at the University of Plymouth. Her pioneering work on the evolution of consciousness has been featured in popular science publications like New Scientist and Scientific American.
Blackmore is the author of several books, including the bestselling 'The Meme Machine', which explores how ideas and cultural information spread like biological viruses. Her thought-provoking keynotes challenge audiences to rethink the nature of the mind and our place in the universe.
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Memes and "temes"
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive
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