"Chimpanzees and orangutans may be capable of very limited forms of imitation, but only humans are capable of the kind of widespread and general imitation that...leads to memetic evolution." --Dr. Susan Blackmore in The Evolution of Meme Machines "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." -- Picasso " Imitation is the sincerest flattery" -- C.C. Colton "Stealing from one source is plagiarism. Stealing from many sources is research." -- Wilson Mizner....or Joseph Cummings Chase...or Steven Wright or....? As humans, we are drawn to create. It also seems to be an innately human behavior to take someone's creation and do whatever we can to make it our own. In this way, we form our culture. In this way, we spread our memes. Memes are born They spread through simple contagion. We blog about them. Repeatedly . ...
My periodic musings on life.