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FACTORY INSTALLED Do our minds come to us factory installed? Do we have free will? Do we have a choice in the art we find beautiful, the homes and landscapes we choose to live in, do we decide who we will marry? Is man one hundred percent predetermined? Is everything we do depending on our genetics and is everything hereditary? I think that everything we sense has an aesthetic quality, whether we like it or …

…Everything is connected to our past. Everything is a message about survival, survival of the healthiest, wealthiest, and the prettiest. And it is up to us to decide who wins and passes on the genes to the future generation. Everything we think, feel, sense has to do with our past and maybe we should try to embrace it a little more, our instincts got us this far so there must be a reason for them.