memeplexes

This gives rise to meme complexes or 'memeplexes'.

The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

Ultimately religions are memeplexes like any other political, ideological and have to be judged on an individual basis.

The Speculist: The Friendliness Problem 2006

Two different religions might be seen as two alternative memeplexes.

The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

* Different schools and genres of art can be analysed as alternative memeplexes, as artists copy ideas and motifs from earlier artists, and new motifs survive only if they mesh with others.

The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

But, as with genes, some memes survive only against the right background of other memes, leading to the build-up of alternative memeplexes.

The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

Rather, it has to do with memes fitting in with mutually compatible memeplexes.

The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

This eliminates competition for cognitive residence from alternative memeplexes the dead cannot communicate their competing vectors.

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The later stages, where a religion becomes organized, elaborate and arbitrarily different from other religions, are quite well handled by the theory of memeplexes - cartels of mutually compatible memes.

The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

Memetic evolution results in their grouping together into grand memeplexes, much in the way that a bunch of genes group together and house themselves in organisms.

A Brief History of Disbelief Sean 2005

And the Neanderthals (rescued from Earth ages ago; they lack a spiritual sense and are immune to memeplexes), who live as traders and travel on Precursor ships that must be coaxed to do their bidding, are being enlisted by the reef-mothers to carry a portion of their kind to another world, where perhaps they will survive the disaster.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004