Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA25241 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:30:35 +0100 From: "salice" <salice@gmx.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:25:04 +0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What/Who selects memes? In-reply-to: <20011002124123.AAA16872@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Message-Id: <E15oQW9-0007mM-00@dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Your basic question then is one of aesthetics, and that is a branch of
> philosophy that I've always wanted to combine with memetics, and
> genetics, and microbiology, and then with neurophysiology, and then, who
> knows, and then, voila, consilience...!
I'd also be interested in how this connection works, but there don't
seem to be any convincing theories yet. Or are there?
The general false assumption in most theories seems to be, that every
human has the same aesthetics.
> The strange fact is, there are a lot of universally enjoyed noises and
> images. Just because you personally don't like Picasso's blue period
> right now, nevertheless, you might be attracted to the general blueness
Yes, so i, my brain selects the meme "Blueness". And someone else
selects the meme "Form in Cubism". So why? What makes different
people get excited by different memes if memes are independent from
persons brains?
It is so obvious that the brain selects memes i can't understand how
this can be not seen. It is everywhere to be seen. Even in this
discussion.
> of this artifact opened for you. (Which is all why I fail to see any good
> in stifling the availability of knowledge, especially with dogmatic
> supernatural explanations.)
Everyone has his own knowledge, even if this knowledge is, that
no knowledge exists.
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