摘要：Normal 0 21 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that poetic narrative deduced from some texts written by Jorge Luis Borges has an affinity with memetics, both Borges and memetics assuming that ideas are entities having their own lives, occupying a central place in modeling the human mind. In order to achieve this goal, we will present some Borges narratives and in parallel present the so-called theory of memes or memetics. In the case of memetics, the theory of evolution by natural selection associated with genetics establishes the basis to consider ideas as entities analogous to genes. In order to clarify this point we will present a version of Darwinism in addition to current genetics, and only then introduce the theory of memes. Special interest is the case of the Borges narrative "Funes, el memorioso" in which the neurologist Oliver Sacks, identifies in the protagonist, Funes, a cognitive disorder. But in our argument, such a tale will serve as the basis for query that Funes is a man without ideas, (a zero-memes man), other characters and stories represent imprisoning ideas,, especially monomania. Unlike traditional interpretations establishing that Borges encouraging the idea that knowledge and science are merely a language illusion, we will defend that Borges understands very well the concept of ideas (including scientific ideas) lead us to destruction, but may help us to free ourselves from natural prisons or other mazes which we have created, either consciously or unconsciously.
其他摘要：The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that poetic narrative deduced from some texts written by Jorge Luis Borges has an affinity with memetics, both Borges and memetics assuming that ideas are entities having their own lives, occupying a central place in modeling the human mind. In order to achieve this goal, we will present some Borges narratives and in parallel present the so-called theory of memes or memetics. In the case of memetics, the theory of evolution by natural selection associated with genetics establishes the basis to consider ideas as entities analogous to genes. In order to clarify this point we will present a version of Darwinism in addition to current genetics, and only then introduce the theory of memes. Special interest is the case of the Borges narrative "Funes, el memorioso" in which the neurologist Oliver Sacks, identifies in the protagonist, Funes, a cognitive disorder. But in our argument, such a tale will serve as the basis for query that Funes is a man without ideas, (a zero-memes man), other characters and stories represent imprisoning ideas,, especially monomania. Unlike traditional interpretations establishing that Borges encouraging the idea that knowledge and science are merely a language illusion, we will defend that Borges understands very well the concept of ideas (including scientific ideas) lead us to destruction, but may help us to free ourselves from natural prisons or other mazes which we have created, either consciously or unconsciously.
关键词：Borges;meme;gene;mind;free will;evolution;Teoria da evolução;literatura;memética
其他关键词：Philosophy; Literature; Life Sciences;Borges; meme; gene; mind; free will; evolution
