The essential difference between animal and human intelligence lies in our
ability to form and deal with *abstract* concepts. This enables
self-awareness, volition, etc. Some chains of abstractions are memes
(compact ideas that transmit well in a given environment).
Lower-level concepts
From: DEREK ZAHN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nothing particularly original here, but I think
it's kind of interesting.
Suppose that at some point, basically by accident,
the brains of our ancestors became capable of supporting
the evolution of memes.
Biological evolution started with a
