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20: 183:") would be revived when an element resembling a component of the original complex of stimuli was encountered. Semon’s mnemic principle was based upon how stimuli produce a "permanent record,... written or engraved on the irritable substance", i.e. upon cellular material energetically predisposed to such inscription. According to historian Petteri Pietikainen: 187:
Semon argued not only that information is encoded into memory and that there are 'memory traces' (engrams) or after-effects of stimulation that conserve the changes in the nervous system, he also contended that these changes in the brain (that is, engrams) are inherited. Semon's mneme-theory fell
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Semon found evidence in the way that different parts of the body relate to each other involuntarily, such as "reflex spasms, co-movements, sensory radiations," to infer distribution of "engraphic influence." He also took inventive recourse to
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Before taking up his appointment at the University of Jena, he spent three years travelling around Australia; and the Indonesian Archipelago and, as a consequence, he was one of a number of influential German-speaking residents — such as
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In the Australian Bush and on the Coast of the Coral Sea: Being the Experiences and Observations of a Naturalist in Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas
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Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel, ausgeführt in den Jahren 1891-1893 von Prof. Dr. R. Semon, Erster Band: Ceratodus
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Barrett, L., Eckstein, L., Hurley, A.W. & Schwarz A. (2018), "Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglement: An Introduction",
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into disrepute largely because in a Lamarckian fashion it proposed that memory units are passed from one generation to another.
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Semon proposed psycho-physiological parallelism according to which every psychological state corresponds to alterations in the
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Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2011), "Semon", p. 240, in B. Beolens, M. Watkins, & M. Grayson (eds.),
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from 1870 to 1918. The theory later lost scientific legitimacy as it yielded no reliable data and advances in
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von Linstow, O.F.B. (1898), "Nemathelminthen von Herrn Richard Semon in Australien gesammelt",
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Extended Artificial Memory. Toward an integral cognitive theory of memory and technology
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Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture
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Alchemists of Human Nature: Psychological Utopianism in Gross, Jung, Reich and Fromm
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In relation to "Australasia", another German-speaking explorer and geologist,
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Die mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen
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Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena
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Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory
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German zoologist, explorer, evolutionary biologist and memory researcher
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The Remembrance of Things Past: On Aby M. Warburg and Walter Benjamin
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Putting Psychology in Its Place: A Critical Historical Overview
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Darwinizing CultureThe Status of Memetics as a Science
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University of Kaiserslautern. 493: 446: 317:See, for instance, Anon (1895). 766:20th-century German zoologists 761:19th-century German zoologists 507:: a German Scientist's Work", 477:Beolens, et al. (2011), p.240. 421: 386: 377: 368: 359: 350: 341: 320: 311: 1: 688:, London: Macmillan & Co. 526:10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671 428:Hull, David L. (2001-01-04), 304: 251:a separate concept coined by 175:(based on the Greek goddess, 706:, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann 586:Goeschel, Christian (2009). 374:Richards (2002), pp.133-134. 328:Julius von Haast (1822-1887) 244:should not be confused with 196:, which was popular amongst 73: 7: 592:. Oxford University Press. 453:Christian Goeschel (2015). 356:Pietikainen, (2007), p.100. 211: 208:made the theory untenable. 10: 787: 266: 117:Carl Mücke (a.k.a. Muecke) 646:Rampley, Matthew (2000), 393:Dawkins, Richard (1976). 336:Christchurch, New Zealand 294:, and an Acantocephalan ( 278: 162: 129:Moritz Richard Schomburgk 632:Pietikainen, P. (2007), 287:of green-blooded skink ( 679:, Jena: Gustav Fischer. 589:Suicide in Nazi Germany 557:Oxford University Press 455:Suicide in Nazi Germany 347:Semon 1921, p. 24. 34:– 27 December 1918, in 606:Landsberg, A. (2004), 365:Landsberg (2004), p.7. 190: 48:evolutionary biologist 28:Richard Wolfgang Semon 24: 664:, London: Routledge. 660:Richards, G. (2002), 636:, London: Routledge. 621:Ludwig, Lars (2013). 383:Rampley (2000), p.88. 297:Australiformis semoni 185: 149:Ferdinand von Mueller 145:Robert von Lendenfeld 22: 518:Postcolonial Studies 133:Karl Theodor Staiger 54:and applied this to 30:(22 August 1859, in 771:Suicides in Germany 486:von Linstow (1898). 290:Prasinohaema semoni 171:. His ideas of the 702:Semon, R. (1922), 693:Semon, R. (1921), 684:Semon, R. (1899), 675:Semon, R. (1894), 153:Georg von Neumayer 141:Eugene von Guérard 89:William Blandowski 25: 714:Mnemic Psychology 642:978-1-85196-923-4 616:978-0-231-12927-5 599:978-0-19-953256-8 540:978-1-4214-0135-5 406:978-0-19-857519-1 332:Canterbury Museum 228:, influenced the 778: 628: 603: 582: 565:Schacter, Daniel 560: 552:The Selfish Gene 509:The Queenslander 487: 484: 478: 475: 469: 468: 450: 444: 443: 442: 441: 425: 419: 418: 396:The selfish gene 390: 384: 381: 375: 372: 366: 363: 357: 354: 348: 345: 339: 324: 318: 315: 56:social evolution 786: 785: 781: 780: 779: 777: 776: 775: 736: 735: 734: 600: 579: 496: 491: 490: 485: 481: 476: 472: 465: 451: 447: 439: 437: 426: 422: 407: 391: 387: 382: 378: 373: 369: 364: 360: 355: 351: 346: 342: 325: 321: 316: 312: 307: 281: 269: 253:Richard Dawkins 214: 165: 109:Johann Luehmann 93:Amalie Dietrich 85:Hermann Beckler 76: 38:) was a German 17: 12: 11: 5: 784: 774: 773: 768: 763: 758: 753: 748: 733: 732: 718: 709: 699: 690: 681: 672: 658: 644: 630: 618: 604: 598: 583: 577: 561: 543: 528: 514: 501:Anon (1895), " 497: 495: 492: 489: 488: 479: 470: 463: 445: 420: 405: 385: 376: 367: 358: 349: 340: 319: 309: 308: 306: 303: 280: 277: 268: 265: 224:Semon's book, 213: 210: 194:organic memory 164: 161: 101:Diedrich Henne 97:Wilhelm Haacke 75: 72: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 783: 772: 769: 767: 764: 762: 759: 757: 754: 752: 751:1918 suicides 749: 747: 744: 743: 741: 731:: (in German) 730: 728: 724: 719: 717: 715: 710: 708:: (in German) 707: 705: 700: 698: 696: 691: 689: 687: 682: 680: 678: 673: 671: 670:1-84169-233-6 667: 663: 659: 657: 656:3-447-04299-0 653: 649: 645: 643: 639: 635: 631: 626: 625: 619: 617: 613: 609: 605: 601: 595: 591: 590: 584: 580: 578:1-84169-052-X 574: 570: 566: 562: 558: 554: 553: 548: 544: 541: 537: 533: 529: 527: 523: 519: 515: 512: 510: 506: 505: 504:The Ceratodus 499: 498: 483: 474: 466: 464:9780199606115 460: 456: 449: 435: 431: 424: 416: 412: 408: 402: 398: 397: 389: 380: 371: 362: 353: 344: 337: 333: 329: 323: 314: 310: 302: 300: 298: 293: 291: 286: 276: 274: 264: 262: 258: 254: 250: 248: 243: 239: 235: 231: 227: 222: 220: 209: 207: 203: 202:psychologists 199: 195: 189: 184: 182: 178: 174: 170: 160: 158: 157:Carl Wilhelmi 154: 150: 146: 142: 138: 137:George Ulrich 134: 130: 126: 122: 121:Ludwig Preiss 118: 114: 110: 106: 105:Gerard Krefft 102: 98: 94: 90: 86: 82: 81:Ludwig Becker 71: 69: 68: 63: 62: 57: 53: 49: 45: 41: 37: 33: 29: 23:Richard Semon 21: 726: 722: 713: 703: 694: 685: 676: 661: 647: 633: 623: 607: 588: 568: 550: 531: 517: 508: 503: 502: 494:Bibliography 482: 473: 454: 448: 438:, retrieved 433: 423: 395: 388: 379: 370: 361: 352: 343: 322: 313: 295: 288: 282: 270: 256: 245: 241: 237: 229: 225: 223: 215: 191: 186: 172: 166: 113:Johann Menge 77: 65: 59: 27: 26: 756:1918 deaths 746:1859 births 547:Dawkins, R. 273:World War I 234:Aby Warburg 219:phonography 740:Categories 440:2023-04-25 415:1238007082 305:References 261:David Hull 240:: Semon's 198:biologists 729:: 467–472 695:The Mneme 230:Mnemosyne 226:Die Mneme 74:Australia 40:zoologist 567:(2001). 549:(1976). 338:in 1867. 212:Evidence 206:genetics 44:explorer 285:species 267:Suicide 67:ecphory 668:  654:  640:  614:  596:  575:  538:  461:  413:  403:  279:Legacy 181:engram 169:nerves 163:Thesis 155:, and 61:engram 36:Munich 32:Berlin 334:, in 257:mneme 242:Mneme 177:Mneme 173:mneme 666:ISBN 652:ISBN 638:ISBN 612:ISBN 594:ISBN 573:ISBN 536:ISBN 459:ISBN 411:OCLC 401:ISBN 247:meme 238:N.B. 200:and 64:and 522:doi 742:: 725:, 555:. 432:, 409:. 301:. 249:, 236:. 151:, 147:, 143:, 139:, 135:, 131:, 127:, 123:, 119:, 115:, 111:, 107:, 103:, 99:, 95:, 91:, 87:, 83:, 70:. 46:, 42:, 727:8 602:. 581:. 559:. 542:. 524:: 467:. 417:. 299:) 292:)

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Berlin
Munich
zoologist
explorer
evolutionary biologist
inheritance of acquired characteristics
social evolution
engram
ecphory
Ludwig Becker
Hermann Beckler
William Blandowski
Amalie Dietrich
Wilhelm Haacke
Diedrich Henne
Gerard Krefft
Johann Luehmann
Johann Menge
Carl Mücke (a.k.a. Muecke)
Ludwig Preiss
Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (a.k.a. Ruemker)
Moritz Richard Schomburgk
Karl Theodor Staiger
George Ulrich
Eugene von Guérard
Robert von Lendenfeld
Ferdinand von Mueller
Georg von Neumayer
Carl Wilhelmi

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