Yes.
Umm....
Drosophila is the fruit fly, used as a basic and easily experimentable on
by geneticists. I proposed that toilet training could be used in a like
way (by memeticists) to identify memes- cultural quanta- since toilet
training is uniquely human and uniquely cultural, and universal.
I'm currently working on suggesting a new form of dream study as another
approach.
Sewing, i.e. the making of garments- is another good idea. Again, we need
to see in what manner this differentiates from animal pursuits of
individual protection from the elements, and try to distill some things.
These are all ways I see we can actually identify memes- basic units of
culture. But I am not a scientist....
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