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Top 15 Susan Blackmore Quotes (2025 Update)

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.”

1. “Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.”

2. “Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic.”

3. “Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.”

4. “Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.”

5. “All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.”

6. “If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?”

7. “Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Take male strategies for success in the world. If you’ve got all the advantages, if you’re attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.”

8. “Take male strategies for success in the world. If you’ve got all the advantages, if you’re attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.”

9. “Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population – weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.”

10. “Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population – weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed.”

11. “For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That’s not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.”

12. “One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That’s not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Just like genes, the memes have no foresight. They cannot be expected to foresee that almost anything might happen. They might even, in the process of diverting our energies from the genes, just wipe us out.”

13. “Just like genes, the memes have no foresight. They cannot be expected to foresee that almost anything might happen. They might even, in the process of diverting our energies from the genes, just wipe us out.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “Memes, like genes, are selected against the background of other memes in the meme pool. The result is that gangs of mutually compatible memes – coadapted meme complexes or memeplexes – are found cohabiting in individual brains. This is not because selection has chosen them as a group, but because each separate member of the group tends to be favoured when its environment happens to be dominated by the others.”

14. “Memes, like genes, are selected against the background of other memes in the meme pool. The result is that gangs of mutually compatible memes – coadapted meme complexes or memeplexes – are found cohabiting in individual brains. This is not because selection has chosen them as a group, but because each separate member of the group tends to be favoured when its environment happens to be dominated by the others.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “If you found a mammal with feathers, then you’d know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it’s rather the same with memes.”

15. “If you found a mammal with feathers, then you’d know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it’s rather the same with memes.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “If we take memetics seriously then the ‘me’ that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.”

16. “If we take memetics seriously then the ‘me’ that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “On the delusional theory of consciousness.”

17. “On the delusional theory of consciousness.”

— Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore Quote: “What is the difference between the mind resting in tranquility and the mind moving in thought?”

18. “What is the difference between the mind resting in tranquility and the mind moving in thought?”

— Susan Blackmore

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