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Hull, in his introduction of the term interactor, observes that Dawkins 'theory has replicators interacting with their environments in two distinct ways: they produce copies of themselves, and they influence their own survival and the survival of their copies through the production of secondary products that ultimately have phenotypic expression.

Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

This approach is clearly not equivalent to the approach to units of selection characterized as the interactor approach.

Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

We might need to use terms such as "interactor," "vehicle," or "target" to describe groups in this case, but we don't need to tinker with the concept of genes as "replicators."

David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection X: Na��ve Gene Selectionism 2009

Others consider that the interactor is the meme itself (Blackmore 1999) or that the meme is the selected cultural hereditable information just as Williams '“evolutionary gene” is the selected genetic hereditable information, and the memetic interactor is the repertoire of behaviors it elicits (Wilkins

Replication Hull, David 2008

According to Professor Anne Norris, an "interactor" can literally jump into a scenario by wearing a specially designed motion-capture suit. 


TG Daily 2010

If she doesn't feel like doing the traveling to accomplish all the interacting necessary (and she is a dynamite interactor with readers of all ages!), then I think that Linda Sue Park, Lois Lowry or Katherine Paterson would all be wonderful choices.

In the footsteps of giants Roger Sutton 2009

Not surprisingly, I once thought about becoming a psychologist, but soon realized I was more suited to the role of observer than interactor.

2008 September « Becca’s Byline 2008

Not surprisingly, I once thought about becoming a psychologist, but soon realized I was more suited to the role of observer than interactor.

Defining Moments 2008

Janet Murray suggests that with virtual media, the reader/interactor “creates juxtapositions that are intentionally open to multiple meanings” (160).

Games in Virtual Environments 2005

The Contraries Machine is a hypermedia device that allows the reader/interactor to not only read verbal and visual together, but also to read Innocence and Experience together, synoptically, in virtual space.

Blake's Contraries Game 2005