Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
One controversial issue in memetics since its early days concerns whether memes can be usefully said to be embodied in images, videos, and texts, or alternatively whether memes are things that only exist inside human minds. This is the internalism vs externalism debate. In this video, I come firmly down on the side of externalism.
Transcript: on-memetics.blogspot.com/2011/09/tim-tyler-internalism-vs-externalism-in.html
Please buy my book on Memetics: memetics.timtyler.org
"Memetics: Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution."
Amazon.com link: amazon.com/dp/1461035260
One controversial issue in memetics since its early days concerns whether memes can be usefully said to be embodied in images, videos, and texts, or alternatively whether memes are things that only exist inside human minds. This is the internalism vs externalism debate. In this video, I come firmly down on the side of externalism.
Transcript: on-memetics.blogspot.com/2011/09/tim-tyler-internalism-vs-externalism-in.html
Please buy my book on Memetics: memetics.timtyler.org
"Memetics: Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution."
Amazon.com link: amazon.com/dp/1461035260
