Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA25622 (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 18:34:04 +0100 From: "salice" <salice@gmx.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:28:24 +0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What/Who selects memes? In-reply-to: <20011002155316.AAA11026@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Message-Id: <E15oTNN-00048V-00@dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> 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.
So this meme was a slave to my dna? It had to rely on my "very deep,
genetic, developmental level". But it's a bad example anyway. Just
because a picture includes blueness doesn't automatically make it
interesting to people.
> You've been selected to respond to blue, you aren't making a choice to.
I agree, selection of memes isn't always a conscious process. A lot
of things work behind the surface but they happen in the brain.
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