Re: What/Who selects memes?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 16:52:23 BST

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    > Yes, so i, my brain selects the meme "Blueness".

    Ah, no. The blueness is innately attractive, merely (!) because, at this
    stage of affairs, there is something (hey, the sky, the water) that
    attracts you to blue, at a very deep, genetic, developmental level.
    You've been selected to respond to blue, you aren't making a choice to.

    The memetic, aesthetic, content is your appreciation of Picasso- which
    requires (sometimes but not always) a knowledge of the culture around the
    art.

    We respond to many things on a basic biological level.

    - Wade

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