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Comment author: Evan_Gaensbauer 20 January 2015 05:31:04AM 3 points [-]

More on Slate Star Codex than on LessWrong, there is discussion of memes as a useful concept for explaining or thinking about cultural evolution. The term 'memetics' is thrown around to correspond to the theory of memes as a field of inquiry. I want to know more about memetics, lest I would consider it not worth my time to think about it more deeply. More broadly, if not definitely a pseudoscience, it skirts that border more frequently. I expect the discourse on memes might be at least a bit less speculative if us amateur memeticists here knew more about it. Thus, I've generated a post covering memetics. Some of them are notes on the history of memetics as a field, and others are interesting. I don't go in-depth in explaining any idea, but sources are provided so readers can pursue individual, uh, memes...from within memeplexes themselves:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/evan-gaensbauer/notes-of-interest-on-memetics-part-i/10153033128194461

That's a link to the note as published by me on Facebook, as I don't have my own blog. It should be accessible publicly. If you can't access it, logged into Facebook or not, let me know, and I'll see if I can solve that problem.

Comment author: somnicule 20 January 2015 09:20:48AM 2 points [-]

You could post this as a top level discussion post here, if you want to make it more available and reduce trivial inconveniences to those without access to facebook.