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I don't know where this is going.
I've run across terms like "memetics" recently. There are books on things like memetics, neural networks, particle swarm optimization, ... which I don't understand, but they seem to have some common thread, which I can't put my finger on.
I'm just dumping stuff I run across here in the hope of organizing it in somekind of logical structure eventually.

Memes:
An information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory.

Essentially a meme can be as small as a word or as large as a belief system. In much the same way that genes spread through a population based on their "fitness," memes spread through the cultural and psychological landscape.

Establishing a complete listing of all the memes contained within a work of literature equates to fully cataloging its genome.

See Memetics | Principia Cybernetica

Terms:

AI  - Artificial Ingelligence
ANN - Artificial Neural Networks
BF  - Bacterial+Foraging
DFL - Dynamic Fuzzy Logic
GA  - Genetic Algorithm
Literary Genome
LSI - Latent semantic indexing
Meme  - An idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. 
Memetics - The theoretical and empirical science that studies 
           the replication, spread and evolution of memes.
Music Genome  (e.g. Pandora)
NN Neural Network.
PMSM - Progressive Mapping Search Method
PSO Particle Swarm Optimization

Links:
F. Heylighen: Memetics (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels), Nov 23, 2001, URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/memes.html.

last updated 8 Oct 2015