Dan Sperber Professions : Cognitive scientist Born : June 20, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Dan Sperber Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. Dan Sperber peculiar poetry art Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate. Dan Sperber support giving culture For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions. Dan Sperber copying play culture Similar Authors Edwin Hutchins cognitive-scientist All Authors
