Economics is a way to give boring people jobs.
....anonymous graffiti on college classroom desk
/////////////////////magine 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?"" The answer comes back readily enough, and our understanding of ourselves is enriched. She pushes on, with patience and skill applying the same method to deeper and more exacting problems: What is language for? What attracts us to our mates? Why are we so good to each other? Did memes drive the rapid, massive, and peculiary evolutionary expansion of the human brain? This extraordinary and engrossing book ends by confronting the deepest questions of all about ourselves: the nature of the inner self, the part of us that is the centre of our consciousness, that feels emotions, has memories, holds beliefs and makes decisions. Susan Blackmore makes a compelling case that this inner self, the "inner me", is an illusion, a creation of the memes for the sake of their own replication."
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