Useless Meme = Side Effect

Gig and I had a bit of offline chat about this. Basically our body has been designed to prefer certain things and lot (but not all) of those tendencies that is built into the body (such as love for sweets) can be traced back to some kind of function it served in helping us survive better.

Gig is suggesting that pattern solving is one of those traits we have come to derive pleasure from over the years. I agree with that. Now that human being have developed a "taste" for pattern solving, lot of patterns that gives us the most pattern solving "pleasure" will spread amongst us. These "pleasurable" patterns may or may not increase our survivability. My suggestion is that music maybe one general sort of such patterns. It gives us pleasure, so make more, we spread it to others, but does it make us more or less survivable. Is it our P element?

Of course survivability isn't the only way human beings pass judgement anymore. This is how we trascend the brutality of nature. There is value in it being pleasurable, whether or not it helps us survive longer.