Memetics

Memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme.

Open questions

• How can we measure meme as a cultural unit in cultural evolution?
• Measurement implies some sort of notational description able to usefully label a meme's content
• Measurement implies a notation of meme propagation, both historically (a memeology, so to speak) and in the present
• Measurement implies a way to provide tools for describing likely futures for a meme
• How different is biological evolution and the cultural one?
• What is the interplay between the memetic approach and the recent advancements of computer science, including computational sociology?
• As memetics is concerned with cultural evolution, and much of culture is transmitted through language, why are the fields of historical and evolutionary linguistics ignored in discussions of memetics?