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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."
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title: Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination
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