Why choose the title memetic1 for this site ? The word memetic
refers to the science of memetics, the word memes was first
used by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
A memes is any small program that is easily transferred from
brain to brain. This could be an item of humour, a fashion
garment, a work of art, a word describing an object etc. The
science of memetics is the investigation of the build up and
transfer of any memes through brains.
Genetic V Environmental.
There is considerable competition with psychiatrists that
differ in that there is one area of opinion that promotes the
idea that there is genetic personality and intelligence carried
forward in replication for our life form: now referred to by
scientists as the hard wired element. The other camp
promotes the idea that you are born without personality or
intelligence program, and that all of ones personality and
intelligence program is environmentally programmed. Editors
Note, I support the latter.
Time has moved on, in 2003 there is now evidence that we are
the product of nature and nurture programming
The New Scientist journal is used for the references in this section.
The peer review structure of this journal is absolute.
There will be listed on this page, and updated monthly, a
list of pertinent scientific references. Pertinent to the books
and the memetic1.com interest, which is longevity - immortality:
and the search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. There are
five areas of related reference interest covered in this
reference section.
1. Longevity.
2. Psychiatry / Psychology.
3. Biology.
3. Neuroscience.
4. E.T.I.The search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.
Contact with E.T.I. will address 1. 2. 3. and 4. of all the
other problems on this planet.
Journal References. 2001
New Scientist 6 October 2001. Page 31.
Longevity. Small Visions Grand designs. Evidence of gene adaptation in
the effort to stop aging and death.
New Scientist 13 October 2001. Page 28.
Biology. Keep Your Hair On. An adapting genetic program causes hair
loss.
New Scientist. 27 October 2001. Page 17.
E.T.I. Other Earths. Emerging evidence of many possible other life
bearing planets in our galaxy.
New Scientist. 10 November 2001. Page 12.
Psychology. Family Brains. A claim of genetic influence regards
intelligence.
New Scientist. 17 November 2001. Page 6.
Psychology. Worldly wise. Intelligence depends upon the
environment.
New Scientist. 24 November 2001. Page 12.
Biology. Turn on, Kill off. Is reactivating switched off genes a way
to tackle cancer ?
New Scientist. 24 November 2001. Page 16.
Biology / longevity. Brain Heal Thyself. With a bit of coaxing,
humble glial cells may be turned into new neurons.
New Scientist. 24 November 2001. Page 17.
Psychology / adaptation. Mental Gymnastics. Imagine, use will
power, to increase the strength of even your large muscles.
New Scientist. 01 December 2001. Page 52.
Psychology. Opinion Letters. No support for homeopathy claims.
Homeopathy promotes placebo effects.
Journal References. 2002
New Scientist. 05 January 2002. Page 29.
Immortality. Opinion interview. Bill's excellent adventure.
Page 31. Could we become immortal ?
New Scientist. 12 January 2002. Page 14.
Longevity / adaptation. But it's never too late to build up
fragile bones. Aging reversal for bone.
New Scientist. 12 January 2002. Page 22.
Psychology. Not so dummy. Placebo offers some a cure for
depression.
New Scientist. 26 January 2002. Page 7.
Longevity. Keep young and beautiful. Believe it or not there is
already a drug that slows aging.
New Scientist. 26 January 2002. Page 13.
Psychology. Daddy's girls. A hint of your father turns a perfect
stranger in to an ideal mate. Closest relative in your formative years
causes sexual selection later.
New Scientist. 2 February 2002. Page 26.
Psychology. Like Father Like Husband. Closest relative in your formative
years causes sexual selection later.
New Scientist. 2 February 2002. Page 30.
Longevity. Sensational Minds. By Baroness Susan Greenfield.
Brains have the ability to fast grow the requisite links.
New Scientist. 23 February 2002. Page 7.
Longevity. Pep pills for old age. Oral chemical input make rats
rediscover their youth.
New Scientist. 23 February 2002. Page 25.
Longevity. Use it or lose it. You forget how to use your memory
as you age.
New Scientist. 2nd March 2002. Page 25.
Psychology. Kids. They spend all their time playing video games and
texting each other. Where's it ever going to get them ? asks
Phillida Browm. Intensive environmental programming is pushing up
the intelligence programming.
New Scientist. 6 April 2002. Page 30.
Longevity / Programming. Beat the clock. With the right training,
most people can be as fit in their fifties as they where in
their twenties.
New Scientist. 13 April 2002. Page 34.
Psychiatry. Hunted ! This article looks at Moro Response, believed
to be a genetically carried forward hearing related physical
response.
New Scientist. 18 May 2002. Page 15.
E.T.I. Alien life gets more probable every day.
New Scientist. 15 June 2002. Page 18.
Biology. Shutdown. Does you brain simply run out of power if you
have Alzheimer's.
New Scientist. 13 July 2002. Page 23.
Longevity. High flying memories. The drug donepezil improves
memory.
New Scientist. 20 July 2002. Page 20.
Longevity. Getting tough on aging. The idea that DNA Damage in
stem cells is the key to aging is new.
New Scientist. 20 July 2002. Page 23.
E.T.I. Building blocks of life found deep in space.
New Scientist. 27 July 2002. Page 63.
Psychiatry. Psychiatry is deep in crisis, What will it take to
sort it out ? asks Bob Johnson.
New Scientist. 10 August. 2002. Page 16.
Longevity. Secrets of a long life revealed.
New Scientist. 10 August. 2002. Page 25.
Psychology. There's no pill for curing a hellish upbringing.
New Scientist. 24 August. 2002. Page 14.
E.T.I. All over the milky way life may owe it's existence to
clouds of space dust.
New Scientist. 24 August. 2002. Page 34.
Psychology / longevity. The Happy fat. Can eating the right food
offer help to relieve depression ?
New Scientist. 24 August. 2002. Page 52.
Psychology. Accentuate the positive. Positive psychology offers a more
meaningful life.
New Scientist. 31 August. 2002. Page 15.
Biology. Memory. Sperm has memory.
New Scientist. 31 August. 2002. Page 44.
Longevity. Why grey matters. A positive psychology promotes longevity.
New Scientist. 7 September. 2002. Page 56.
Psychology. Born not made. Psychology experts in disagreement.
New Scientist. 28 September. 2002. Page 28.
Longevity. Ready steady evolve.
Evolutionary spurts of fast adaptation
New Scientist. 5 October. 2002. Page 13.
Longevity. Diabetes drugs of the future could help us all look
and feel younger.
New Scientist. 5 October. 2002. Page 42.
Psychology. It takes two. Twins, the nature or nurture investigation,
still an impasse.
New Scientist. 2 November. 2002. Page 25.
Longevity. Healthy Living. Eat Less.
New Scientist. 2 November. 2002. Page 26.
Psychiatry. Brain Teaser. Experts in psychiatry disagree.
New Scientist. 16 November. 2002. Page 26.
E.T.I. Evolution. We where meant to be.
New Scientist. 30 November. 2002. Page 14.
Nature / nurture. A reference to data genetically carried
forward in song birds personal memory: referred to as the aspect
of the hard wired program.
New Scientist. 30 November. 2002. Page 34.
Psychology. You are what you speak. Your programmed language
effects the way you think.
Journal References. 2003
New Scientist. 4 January. 2003. Page 17.
E.T.I. An awful lot of earths may be out there.
New Scientist. 18 January. 2003. Page 47.
Psychology. And so to bed. Dreaming. Waking and dreaming and
consciousness are controlled by chemical systems in the brain.
New Scientist. 1 February. 2003. Page 20.
Longevity. Eat more, weigh less, live longer, " Caloric
restriction," greatly extends the life span of organisms.
New Scientist. 8 February. 2003. Page 23.
Longevity. Diseased brains attempt to repair themselves.
Evidence of fast brain cell growth to combat disease.
New Scientist. 8 February. 2003. Page 54.
Biology. Light in the darkness. Synch, the emerging science
of spontaneous order. Fireflies flash in synch with each other.
Any collection of oscillators whose frequency can respond to
those around it will end up in synchrony. This poses the
question, can our species brains globally synchronise in
such a manner: thereafter, only being able to promote a
positive psychology ?
New Scientist. 22 February. 2003. Page 26.
Biology. Letters. No Match For Go.
The computer has scarcely begun to challenge the capacity of
the human mind.
New Scientist. 15 March. 2003. Page 40.
Biology. Running Repair. D.N.A. damage is a central cause of
ageing, also, histone modification may effect our rate of aging:
+ evidence of gene expression causing very fast adaptation.
New Scientist. 15 March. 2003. Page 47.
Biology. You are what you eat. Emerging evidence that diet
effects gene expression: increasing the risk of disease.
New Scientist. 22 March. 2003. Page 101.
Biology. The Last Word. Sink Stoppage. Evidence of fast brain
adaptation promoting equality.
New Scientist. 29 March. 2003. Page 24.
E.T.I. The Earth Was A Freak. Our planet is rare.
New Scientist. 29 March. 2003. Page 44.
Psychology. Gay Men. The nature V nurture debate
continues. Ed, Born in to a family of boys promotes
equality and comfort with boys.
New Scientist. 29 March. 2003. Page 56.
Psychology. Starry Life. This article highlights the mental
damage inflicted by bereavement on the brain of distinguished
astronomer Patric More.
New Scientist. 19 April. 2003. Page 26.
Longevity. Clock Of Ages. Emerging evidence that genes control
the aging program and longevity.
New Scientist. 10 May. 2003. Page 46.
Biology. Sex, brains, robots and Buddhism: looking for free
will. Highlighting the illusion of conscious will.
New Scientist. 17 May. 2003. Page 33.
Biology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience. Human Nature.
A fourteen page extravaganza about the brain.
Page 34 / 36. An informative introduction.
Page 37. Human Nature statistics.
Page 38 / 39. Matt Ridley. Genes are so liberating. The act
of learning turns on genes. Experience may not change a
genes sequence, but it may change it's expression. Nature and
Nurture are inextricably intertwined.
Page 42 / 45. Alison Gopnic. What every baby knows. Babies are
not a blank slate, they are little scientists.
Inside Science 160 Pages 1 / 4. This is your life. Self is an
illusion.
Page 46 / 47. Dominic Murphy. Breaking out of the
straightjacket. " Mental Illness," is not a biological
disease.
New Scientist. 24 May 2003. Page 15.
Biology. People and chimps belong together on the family
tree. 99.4 % DNA compatibility.
New Scientist. 24 May 2003. Page 15.
Biology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience. Human Nature.
A nineteen page extravaganza about the brain followed by a
review of relevant subject books.
Page 38. Laying the ghost in the machine. The soul is
dying. We are truly a machine of parts, without a central
seat of consciousness.
Page 39. Daniel Dennett. Brains are for producing future.
Page 42. Dalai Lama. On the luminosity of being.
Page 44. Owen Flanagan. The colour of happiness. Buddhists
are programmed happier.
Page 45. Gender. An introduction.
Page 46. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. New rules for an old game.
Empathy is environmentally programmed.
Page 50. Anne Campbell. I had to smack him one. Woman
are hard wired to be different.
Page 53. Helen Fisher. A century for woman. Woman think
differently.
Page 54. Simon Baron-Cohan. Sugar and spice. The female
brain is hard wired for empathy.
New Scientist. 14 June 2003. Page 5.
Anthropology. Where When And How ? Accurate dating to
160,000 years.
New Scientist. 14 June 2003. Page 23.
Biology. How to make old cells as good as new.
Body cells can be programmed immortal !
New Scientist. 14 June 2003. Page 33.
E.T.I. Evolution. So the emergence of life would be
an early feature on all such worlds, surviving as long
as there was liquid water.
New Scientist. 20 Sept 2003. Page 20.
E.T.I. Twice as many earths out there.
New Scientist. 27 Sept 2003. Page 40.
Genesis. The regeneration game. Can we regrow
damaged or worn out organs ?
New Scientist. 4 Oct 2003. Page 45.
Biology. A set point of happiness which is up to
90% genetically determined etc.
New Scientist. 11 Oct 2003. Page 17.
Psychology. Psychologists have known for years
that sleep plays a critical role in processing
new memories.
New Scientist. 11 Oct 2003. Page 36.
Neuroscience. The pleasure seekers. Seven pages of
good reading. Neuroscientists are completely
rethinking how our brains give us pleasure.
New Scientist. 18 Oct 2003. Page 19.
Neuroscience. Rejection really does hurt.
New Scientist. 18 Oct 2003. Page 46.
Longevity. I want to live forever. Genes control
aging.
New Scientist. 1 Nov 2003. Page 42.
Longevity. Membrains could be the key to a long
life.
New Scientist. 22 Nov 2003. Page 18.
Neuroscience. Love resembles O.C.D. It's all
just chemical change.
New Scientist. 22 Nov 2003. Page 19
Longevity. In Short. Fast brain adaptation.
New Scientist. 20/27 Dec 2003. Page 62.
Psychology. Our brains process information in
completely different ways when we are in good or
bad moods.
New Scientist. 20/27 Dec 2003. Page 72.
Psychology. What are you laughing at ? We may know
what makes us giggle, but understanding why is a
more ticklish problem.
New Scientist. 31 Jan 2004. Page 40.
In the realm of your senses. Sensory experiences are
different for everybody and are therefore inherently
private.
New Scientist. 7 Feb 2004. Page 36.
Longevity. An asprin a day. Asprin reduces heart attacks
and strokes: but can cause gastric problems.
New Scientist. 14 Feb 2004. Page 32.
Neuroscience. Fruit fly's give an unlikely insight to
the human mind.
New Scientist. 14 Feb 2004. Page 40.
Neuroscience. Dumped. F.M.R.I. Scan analyses of
love.
New Scientist. 21 Feb 2004. Page 38.
Biology. What makes us human ? Species differ from
each other mostly because of differences in gene
expression, rather than the genes themselves.
New Scientist. 6 Mar 2004. Page 32.
Biology. Letters. When looks deceive. The caterpillar
and the butterfly have the same genome. Gene expression
is the difference.
New Scientist. 20 March 2004. Page 42.
Biology. Fatigue is an emotional response that builds
in the brain.
New Scientist. 27 Mar 2004. Page 7.
Biology. Less bite more brain. A genetic mutation
allowed our evolution to primate.
New Scientist. 10 Apr 2004. Page 9.
Longevity. Chromosome clock ticks out our fate. In germ
cells and young fetuses an enzyme called tolermerase
keeps tolomere length stable.
New Scientist. 1 May 2004. Page 43.
Psychiatry. The anatomy of despair. The discovery of
brain damage in people with depression has thrown long
standing theories about the condition in to disarray.
New Scientist. 8 May 2004. Page 14.
Biology. Love, the great gender bender.
We already know that falling in love is a bit like
going crazy.
New Scientist. 8 May 2004. Page 36.
Biology. Stopping epilepsy at source. Also, an
insight in to the working of brain cells.
Book References 2001
Mindpower. Vernon Coleman. ISBN 1-898947-00-7
This book shows that some people have destroyed cancers and
other diseases by using only will power.
Book References 2002
The Growth And Development Of Children, Fourth Edition By
Catherine Lee. ISBN 0-582-05934-8.
This book shows how children program themselves and are currently
environmentally programmed. This book is very good in this
respect. There is reference in this book in chapter two to
allowing children to play with dead electrical fittings and
boiling water, I found this aspect of this book alarming.
Strong Imagination, by Daniel Nettle. ISBN 0-19-850706-2.
This book shows how western society in it's current mental
progression is built mostly on mental de:stability.
