The term meme then should be reserved for mind ideas. Ok.
But then one should find another word for the intermediate
replicant form when one meme passes from a brain to another,
be it by language, written or spoken, depicted, etc...
There should also be a science of achetypes as very strong
generic replicators from which memes derive. Archetypes
as being to memes what genes are to phenotypes (or some similar
transition).
Even self-replication is a powerful self-replicating archetype.
A symbol for an archetype can be interpreted by a mind (a memeset)
as several different memes.
What about memes stored in their dormant replicant form on a
CDROM which is never interpreted by a human ?
They are then in a type of spore form, because if one day somebody
starts interpreting them again, then there is potential for spread.
Which is why I think that there should be the study of these things :
1. Science of Archetypes
2. Science of Memes
3. Physical Theory of Information.
The third is the more generic. Then 1. Then 2.
Yash.