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Video by philosopher Dan Dennett on Memes

By Bruce K. Hollingdrake • Aug 3rd, 2007 • Category: Videos

Memes (pronounced like beams) are simply ideas. Of course if you or I come up with what we think is a brilliant idea we have no idea how it may be used by others. This is one of a large series of video presentations at TED Talks. If you’ve not yet checked these out you should. While not directly related to book selling they are about opening one’s mind and that’s a large part of what we do (I hope). Here’s the talk by Dr. Dennet.

 


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  2. […] something other than books to help stoke your imagination. Our video presentation of philosopher Dan Dennett is a great […]

  3. […] I just wrote was inspired by a talk by Dan Dennett. I will be posting the talk later this week. Here it is… Tagged as: Meme Related Posts: Why did I decide to become a bookseller?The World Wide […]

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