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Understanding memes through the process philosophy
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한국화이트헤드학회 화이트헤드연구 화이트헤드연구 제31호
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2015.1
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77 - 101 (25page)

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The purpose of this study is to identify the real world we experience is the synthesis of genetic and cultural evolution. The cooperative evolution of genes and memes results in humankind. Whitehead acquainted well with the theory of evolution by Darwin developed his process philosophy to explain the composition principles of the world. And since Dawkins defined memes, the meme theory was noticed as much as Darwin’s evolution theory. This article explains the meme theory through the process philosophy of Whitehead. The meme theory begins with the simple mechanism memes enter human brains and they compete one another to transfer to other brains. The cosmology provided by the organic philosophy of Whitehead explains the theory of memes efficiently. The universe starts from actual entities that compose nexus. Accordingly, the universe is an enormous society built up by the nexus. The theory of memes makes it possible to explain the following scientific questions; the way wordiness influences the brains, the reason humans evolved as their brains were getting bigger, the reason the human altruistic character is the human real nature, the evolution of language and letters extended by the brain functions, and the internet evolution extended by the space of the brains. The human evolution can’t be explained sufficiently only by the biological and genetic evolution. The cultural evolution as well as the genetic evolution should be joined together to explain the human evolution possibly. Unlike other animals, humans can be the lord of creatures because they have created, succeeded and developed cultures. This article will explain genes and memes through the process philosophy of Whitehead.

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