Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

  • Virus of the Mind

  • The New Science of the Meme
  • By: Richard Brodie
  • Narrated by: Richard Brodie
  • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Virus of the Mind

By: Richard Brodie
Narrated by: Richard Brodie
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. Here, the author carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives.

Mind viruses have already infected governments, educational systems, and inner cities, leading to some of the most pervasive and troublesome problems of society today: youth gangs, the welfare cycle, the deterioration of the public schools, and ever growing government bureaucracy. Richard Brodie weaves together science, ethics, and current events as he raises these and other very disturbing issues relating to memes.
©2009 Hay House, Inc. (P)2009 Hay House, Inc.
Personal Success Social Psychology & Interactions Social Sciences Sociology Spirituality
Show More Show Less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Co-Creating at Its Best cover art
Becoming Who We Need to Be cover art
The Meme Machine cover art
The Biology of Belief cover art
Making the Shift cover art
Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life cover art
The Power of Intention cover art
Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race cover art
Selfish, Scared and Stupid cover art
Good Thinking cover art
The Righteous Mind cover art
One Mind cover art
How Emotions Are Made cover art
The Atheist's Guide to Reality cover art
The Field cover art
The Fourth Age cover art

What listeners say about Virus of the Mind

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    11
  • 4 Stars
    8
  • 3 Stars
    6
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    10
  • 4 Stars
    4
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    9
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for U. A. Farooqi

Nice introductory book

A great book for an introduction towards memetics, but not brilliant if it's a thorough look at memetics that you're after

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Dannyboy1

Audiobooks don't need to be long to be great value

Beautifully written book on a fascinating subject-it's like a really good sequel to the selfish gene

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Rturn

I need more convincing

I struggle with what memetics offers beyond other theories of learning like behaviourism, social learning theory and then other things like NLP. Nor am I clear on how memes differ from norms but I guess it’s a catch all framework for anything transmitted between minds. If so, though, I think the book lacks breadth and depth (after all, that’s a hell of a lot of ground to cover!) Just a little research evidence would have strengthened the core arguments and made the whole framework more convincing.
Well read by the author and fun to listen to,

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!