[extropy-chat] Emotion connected memes and EP

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On 5/11/06, Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> [Originally posted to the memetics group]
>
> [This is a related to the threads about rational people.]
>
> In correspondence with Eugene V Kooin, the author of the comment here:
>
> >http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/4/comment/1005
> >
> >  My main point, however, is a tribute to meme selection: the fittest
> will
> > survive!
>
> He commented:
>
> snip
>
> >. . . it is hard for me to understand how many people, including
> >biologists, can have such a negative attitude (sometimes, almost
> >violently expressed) to this entire conceptual development. I suppose
> >this in itself is a peculiar phenomenon to be understood from the point
> >of view of evolutionary psychology . . .



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Taxonomy

Perhaps we can  determine elements  through organizational methods to
project future memes for personal development?


>
> Or perhaps these emotional bindings to scientific memes (plus religious
> and
> political memes) are a side effect of emotional bindings to xenophobic
> memes.
>
> I recently made the case that the trait to pass around xenophobic memes
> and
> go non-rational is an evolved species typical behavior of humans facing
> bad
> times.  http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/17/194059/296




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>
> Wars and captures were *major* selection factors in the EEA.  It should
> not
> be a surprise if many of our deepest psychological traits were shaped by
> such selection.
>
> Comments?
>
> Keith Henson
>
> PS.  The theory leads to the prediction that *this* theory will be met
> with
> violent rejection by some.  :-)
>
> _______________________________________________
>


By acclamation this meme is accepted, ha!  Last time we really talked was at
Extro 3 Keith, oh meme gravity well.



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