FacultyMemeticsPrimer

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Contents

[edit] Brain dump: to be written up as FacultyMemetics primer

[edit] Background

  • Emergent threads in history, literature and science
  • Man and the urge to influence
  • Macchievelli, Sun Tzu and practical handbooks
  • Modernisation and scientific formalisation

[edit] NLP

  • Gestalt psychology and the roots of NLP
  • Clinical NLP and the focus on utility
  • Milton Erickson and the development of hypnotic techniques
  • Covert NLP in propaganda and advertising

[edit] Memetics

  • Dawkins, Blackmore and the Meme meme
  • Memetics metaphors - genes and viruses
  • Memetics - science or pseudoscience?
  • The Faculty focus on Applied Memetics

[edit] Future directions

  • The popular perception of NLP techniques
  • Memetics as a maturing science - speculations on specialisations
  • Memetics and culture
  • IP Law - current approaches to controlling ideas
  • Openness and the shifting paradigm of IP rights

Page author(s): UncleFester

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