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The New Science of the Meme
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- By Martin on 02-01-10
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A Brief History of Intelligence
- Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
- By: Max S. Bennett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow.
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Flawed fundamental assumptions, good function rvw
- By Duane Leet on 06-01-24
By: Max S. Bennett
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Power vs. Force
- The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
- By: Dr. David R. Hawkins
- Narrated by: Dr. David R. Hawkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The publication of Power vs. Force by Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., reveals to the general public secret information heretofore only shared by the author with certain Nobelists and world leaders. Analyzing the basic nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science and resolving the most crucial of all human dilemmas.
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Good book – poor narrator
- By Greg on 06-28-07
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- K.M
- 06-24-15
Many new prospectively!
You can gain a lot from this book in terms of business and marketing or consciousness and zen or pure conspiracy theory perspective!
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- Dion Shamir Johnson
- 12-16-20
This book literally enlightened me on all levels of the mind!!!
I love this book so much and I have the hardcover and audible for this book and this book has completely enlightened me in ways I thought the mind couldn’t comprehend but I’m so glad I have this book because it has showed me something I wasn’t consciously aware of what is really wrong with society until after I got this book📖🤔🙏🏾
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- lawna cervantes
- 01-02-16
Intentional choice
I just finished the book, so should have a lack of space and distance to know what effect it will have on my future behavior, fortunately however, I remote viewed myself helping many children out of clouds of memes and idioms, so looks promising.
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- Cavario
- 05-16-22
The gift of Clarity
Mr. Brodie's uber effective explanation of memes is remarkably mind expanding. I look forward to my next listen, there's simply too much to capture in a single play.
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- Angy
- 07-14-22
Intriguing
I took off one star for the annoying and loud music between chapters. Stuff like that remove me from the story and disrupts any thought train or emotional feeling from the book.
Otherwise this is a great, straightforward, easy to understand book that explains how blatantly manipulative actions go on every day in ways unlikely to be noticed. Plus it gives examples of the desired outcome from those efforts.
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- Williamb
- 04-24-19
Wish it was longer
An excellent step into the concept of Meme. Richard Brodie provides thorough and meaningful presentation of the topic of meme. This is a practical book for learning the concept, the history, the implications of meme transfer. The use of the term meme is a convenient method of conveying a complicated concept. The concept is extremely important not only to communication and persuasion, but to the understanding of thought. It has been said that all learning is persuasion. It is necessary to be persuaded in order to believe a thought is true. The difference between carrying and sharing a meme, being a meme replicator, and persuading another of a truth is significant. Brodie not only makes the difference clear, he provides some practical defense against the virulent but destructive type of meme. A question discussed in the book is does the meme improve quality of life, and if so, at what cost? I regard this as an important question. Brodie also raises the question of how memes may improve life for humans more broadly, but doesn't explore this deeply.
There are a few unanswered questions that Brodie's treatment skirts. I'd like to know how music fits the meme model. It certainly replicates, does it use the same path? What are the basic motivators that the music meme rides on?
Could there be a strategy to improve meme quality? What criteria would be valid?
Is there a case/risk for pop-up memes for urgent issues? I know that the morning news is a quasi pop-up meme generator. But this source is worn out and now directly challenged, politically and by Internet competition. Which raises the question about judgement - is awareness enough?
Richard reads this work very well. I enjoyed the listen and am still pondering... I hope he finds the time to write the sequel.
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- Savita E Eisenberg
- 11-12-15
An interesting way of looking at things
Enjoyed this book. One of the best teaching devices n it, is being able to observe the stent to which the author is trapped in his own memes. I do hope that was intentional.
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- Cindy
- 03-19-20
Definitely worth a read
I loved this book, informative and it's one of the few books that are not resident in one fueled like Psychology only or marketing or business.
I am new to the meme subject, I am happy I tried it. BRODIE has put the concepts clear and basic enough to wet my appetite on the subject.
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- Venusian Incognito
- 09-06-19
I wanted to like this...
I was excited by the book’s title and was looking forward to an informative Great Courses-Esque in depth discussion on the history of memes and how they spread, with research cited and historical examples etc. I was disappointed.
As others had stated the book is a fair bit repetitive and a bit shallow considering the topic discussed. If feels like a rough draft, or a very long blog post.
I do appreciate what the author was intending (we are largely controlled by ideas, traditions, memes etc that are not our own) but the work just seemed a little unfocused and repetitive with a lot of his assertions left unsupported.
I’d love to find a well researched book that thoroughly/properly explores the phenomena of memes.
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- p diddy
- 11-27-10
thought provoking
While I have to admit that it sounds a little like a sermon, the concept is easy to grasp and not dry at all. This is an good lesson in critical thinking for people who dont want to fall for dumb ideas.
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