No, not from me. I’m wondering if anyone here could explain some of the basic aspects of memetics are…pretty please?
Wah! It’s too early for this! Bring more coffee…
Google, “memetics”, Hit number about 3 or 4, I dunno, my eyes aren’t really open yet…
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html
Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual’s memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual’s memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes
Cultural evolution, including the evolution of knowledge, can be modelled through the same basic principles of variation and selection that underly biological evolution. This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes.
A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication: a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme. This process of self-reproduction, leading to spreading over a growing group of individuals, defines the meme as a replicator, similar in that respect to the gene (Dawkins, 1976; Moritz, 1991)…[more]
[groans hollowly and goes out to kitchen to make coffee]
You might get a copy of “The Meme Machine” by Dr. Susan Blackmore. Here’s her website (which includes the first chapter of her book – it probably has most of the information you want).
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/staff/sb/