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@misc{cogprints258, volume = {48}, title = {Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination}, author = {Daniel C Dennett}, year = {1990}, pages = {127--135}, journal = {Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism}, url = {http://cogprints.org/258/}, abstract = {The general issue to be addressed in a Mandel Lecture is how (or whether) art promotes human evolution or development. I shall understand the term "art" in its broadest connotations--perhaps broader than the American Society for Aesthetics would normally recognize: I shall understand art to include all artifice, all human invention. What I shall say will a fortiori include art in the narrower sense, but I don't intend to draw particular attention to the way my thesis applies to it.} }