Light hits the retina and thus is how sight begins. Now one of the theories says that one system processes the shape, the other the color and the third processes movement, location, etc.

Lets say you see a green cube. The brain is wired that way for you to immediately recognise it and place it somewhere in your memory bank.

we effortlessly detect and classify objects from among tens of thousands of possibilities (Biederman, 1987) and we do so within a fraction of a second (Potter, 1976; Thorpe et al., 1996), despite the tremendous variation in appearance that each object produces on our eyes (reviewed by Logothetis and Sheinberg, 1996). From an evolutionary perspective, our recognition abilities are not surprising -- our daily activities (e.g. finding food, social interaction, selecting tools, reading, etc.), and thus our survival, depends on our accurate and rapid extraction of object identity from the patterns of photons on our retinae.

Why I am boring you with all this? Well...

This is of course a pretty impossible concept in a world where even beautiful original works of art have similarities to art that has come before.

We are wired to compare. Its how we cope with "stuff". "Oh i seen something like this before!" "Oh, this reminds me of..." We categorise to manage.

If you look at some of the organisms like bees or ants...they all work twards the common goal. Yes? And we? Individualism, me myself and I are higly praised. "I did this on my own." "I came up with this...."

I was about 6 and i drew this bird. It was quite grand looking. I remember my aunt asking me: did you do this by yourself? And I said yes but that I watched the picture in the book for reference. She was a bit disapointed. Yes....i refrenced that image but I added to it. I evolved it. I took something that was already there and made it my own. New.

Now...if we were a beehive sorta system this word work as a thing that benefits all. Yes someone made the engine and someone else upgraded it and then someone else upgraded it, etc. That engine serves all humanity. But ego and society standards are wired differently. The desire to be unique, be hurd and special is strong. Competition is very stimulating. So I cant say there is fault in that desire...but just saying there is another side to it.

Sorry for such a long reply! tip!