FW: [evol-psych] Darwinian Poetry -- participants needed

From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri 18 Jul 2003 - 17:50:50 GMT

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    Here's a little memetic project you can participate in. -- BB

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    > From: David Rea <yahoo@codeasart.com>
    > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:21:20 -0400
    > To: evolutionary-psychology@yahoogroups.com
    > Subject: [evol-psych] Darwinian Poetry -- participants needed
    >
    > I recently launched a project called "Darwinian Poetry" to explore
    > whether selection-driven evolution can turn a population of random word
    > groups into interesting "poetry". The programming was easy; the hard
    > part is that the fitness test is human preference. To that end the
    > project needs as many people as possible comparing random poems and
    > choosing their favorite. Sounds strange (it is!) and some people love
    > it, some people hate it. The site is at:
    >
    > http://www.codeasart.com/poetry/darwin.html
    >
    > Be sure to check out the bulletin board; mostly literary types have
    > contributed so far and their comments are interesting.
    >
    > Any participation would be greatly appreciated; and please spread the
    > word!
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > --David
    > Code as Art
    >
    >
    >
    > News in Brain and Behavioural Sciences - Issue 102 - 9th July, 2003
    > http://human-nature.com/nibbs/issue102.html
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    > Evolutionary Psychology http://human-nature.com/ep/
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