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Part 5
The solution to the problem is as follows:- each object is nothing more than a
set of qualities ( idit Robert Clewley) ( memetic lineages).
For example, the blue colour of the sky is a memetic lineage that tells my mind
to perceive a certain instance of the colour blue. In combination with notions of
other memetic lineages, defining sun/ walking/ casual dressing/ smell/ good
vibrations/ etc..the blue sky is defined in my mind as a nice sunny day.
If this is so, you can argue what about the dark sky then on a rainy day !?
Then my mind won 't pin point itself at the blue sky ( there is any) but shall
refer itself to other qualities of the environment.
That is, the abscence of direct sunlight, lesser people are walking about, no
children are playing in the street. I see umbrella 's, I notice the first raindrops
on my window.
Another focus point of my brain results ultemally in another set of solipsistic
memetical lineages which my brain uses to give me an image of the ' reality '
out there and that goes for any aspect of any situation...
Even so, it may be a bright sunny day, the sky may be blue but if I got a
headache, my brain won 't pin point itself onto to blue sky. The pain in my
head is somewhat ' closer ' at hand. MY brain pin points itself onto meme-
tic lineages which are in a sense enforced by the mind itself_memes in order
to ptµropagate themselves will protect themselves from the hazzards which
their host can encounter on his way throughout life.
That is, memes will ease the pain, because eventually the host will meet
someone to talk to and tells him he stood up this morning with a headache.
Of course, on the other hand, the pain can remain for the whole day, the purpose
for that has to be found in the solipsistic/ egoistic nature of those memes.
So in order to get ' change ' it is simple due to the fact that minor irregularities
in the images which the brain exhibite in front of me results in changed perceptions of those memetic lineages which make up my ' reality '.
Change is inflicted upon me by under which definition certain objects/ environ-
ment/ places/ persons/ subject/ etc...are in that particular moment in time per-
ceived by the brain.
Remerber, the brain can 't hold the imagetry of the outside world as an accurate
picture_there only exist snapshots of it !!
When you do see a beautiful woman for the first time your brain will define her
as in shape/ form/ mass/ colour of her hair/ figure/ smell.
But the second time around, after your brain had to ' re- construct ' her, her
image will be defined along those references ( same size f. e ) but your mind will
have been drawn to something slight different ( f. e the colour of her eyes) and
a whole new set of memetic lineagfes will start up....C H A N G E !!!
It is important to note that due to the argument as noticed as above, it is shown
that change is in fact variation ( with each glance our brain have another focus-
point, it varies along a combination of memetic lineages ( state of mind, envi-
ronmental matrix ', perceptions due to all our sense organs etc).
Then do we have selection !?
YES, from the conclusions drawn so far, we can say that each time we ' look'
at the outside world, our brain ' selects '/ ' reacts ' upon the appropiate mememtic
lineages in order to give me an image of the ' reality ' out there.
It is in some sense our brain which ' selects ' the images exhibited in front
of us, our brain ' replicates ' situations along lineages of memory and there-
for varies how I perceive the outside world.
Our brain imitates in order to forfill its own tendency. The brain has to imitate
those behaviourpatterns, those memes originating from of the ' other brains '
in order to give me a successfull picture of the reality represented by itself.
The brain imitates those patterns in order to enforce those memetic lineages
which it acquires to create a decent perception of the outside world FOR ME !!
End of part Five
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