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Elizabeth Gilbert shows up for ... everything

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

The Secular Magic of Memes

I'd love to go back and explore a little more this notion of this world in which there are creative people who are sitting there hoping for a moment of inspiration. And then there's this universe of ideas. Now you describe them as these entities that are sort of conscious and waiting for their path through a human mind and out into the public sphere. There's a related worldview that in some ways isn't all that different from yours, which is this idea of memes that Richard Dawkins first wrote about 30 years ago,. But meme has been co-opted in the internet to me and often sort of silly little pictures or gifts that get passed around and explode to lots of views.

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