Tanagers: Meme, as cultural replicating unit ... How is the idea considered or engaged in the fields of psychiatry and psychology? Memes in psychiatry are a very helpful idea explaining a lot, Is it considered at all in psychiatry, for example, in the new or old DSM, or in its mostly European parallel? ... Wendell Berry's talk at Yale University, How to cultivate replicating non-harming, or care, memes, especially given we human primates' common chimpanzee tendencies, in my interpretation, relative to Bonobo chimpanzees, for example? Further helpful definition of 'meme'

Meme, as cultural replicating unit ...
(Dawkins coined the word in 1976 in his book "The Selfish Gene" as a correlate of genes, using the examples, I think, of a novel or a pretty summer dress, and more particularly of the rabies virus, which jumps from bodymind to bodymind, due to the parasitical nature of this rabies' form of life).


How is it considered or engaged in the fields of

psychiatry and psychology?


Memes in psychiatry are a very helpful idea explaining a lot.


Is it considered at all in psychiatry, for example, in the new or old DSM, or in its mostly European parallel ...

I was asking these questions of a friend at San Francisco Friends' Meeting this past Sunday, before heading into Quaker Meeting ...

Meme, as a concept, explains a lot, and emerges only due to Darwin and evolutionary biological thinking to explain cultural phenomena, acting in somewhat parallel ways to genes, which replicate themselves fundamentally ... with 3-100 million species on earth going back 3.5 billion years.


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Here are some wiki subjects about this, where we can add related ideas:

Psychiatry -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychiatry

Psychology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology

Evolutionary Biology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology

Social Science -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science


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Wendell Berry's talk at Yale is on, in many ways, non-harming or care, vis-a-vis sustainable farming and industrialism ...

Yale 2013 Chubb Lecture with Wendell Berry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4c3GdB461s


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How to cultivate replicating non-harming or care memes, especially given we human primates' common chimpanzee tendencies, in my interpretation, relative to Bonobo chimpanzees, for example? In listening closely and in reading between the lines to Wendell Berry's talk with his interviewers,  I wonder if they are examining some aspects or concerns about this, as well.


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I found a helpful definition of 'meme' today in the Apple 2.x dictionary ...

meme |mēm|
noun Biology
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.

ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated,’ on the pattern of gene.