Memes (Re: Fw: Re: Proverbs)

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Justin McBride wrote:
>     Correct me if  I'm wrong, but isn't the study of the diffusion and
> workings of such little "memory bugs" and general conecpts like them called
> 'memetics?'  It seems I recall reading about this field a few years back,
> but I can't remember where.  I believe it operates on a linguistic analogy
> principle, with its smallest units as 'memes' (compare to phon-emes,
> morph-emes, sem-emes, etc.).


I'm generally aware of the concept, and I've been meaning to read an
article on memes in Scietific American for so long I've misplaced the
issue.  I thought of mentioning the term in this connection, but decided I
had better read the article first, in case meme didn't mean what I thought
it did.