RT Article
T1 Meme Pools, World 3, and Averroës's Vision of Immortality
JF Zygon
VO 33
IS 2
SP 203
OP 219
A1 Gatherer, Derek
LA English
YR 1998
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827952601
AB Dawkins's concept of the meme pool, essentially equivalent to Popper's World 3, is considered as an expression in modern terms for what Averroës knew as the active intellect, an immortal entity feeding into, or even creating, the passive intellect of consciousness. A means is thus provided for reconciling a materialist Darwinian view of the universe with a conception of nonpersonal immortality. The meme pool/active intellect correspondence provides a strong basis for regarding science as a communal enterprise producing enrichment of the meme pool and expansion of consciousness. It also emphasizes the virtues of memetic conservation in relation to vanishing cultures.
K1 Karl Popper
K1 meme pool
K1 Immortality
K1 Richard Dawkins
K1 Consciousness
K1 Averroës
DO 10.1111/0591-2385.00141