[extropy-chat] Movie review- Renaissance: Paris 2054

[The Avantguardian]

Thanks, Keith. I will look for Boyer's book and keep
the rest in mind too.


--- Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:

> At 10:04 PM 11/27/2006 -0800, Stuart wrote:
> 
> snip
> 
> >Yes, I am aware of that, so much so that I am doing
> >something about it beyond mere debate. I and others
> >are forming a memetic antivirus marketed as a
> >religion. It's primary directive is to outcompete
> all
> >others by selling cleverly packaged reality instead
> of
> >so-called "truth".
> 
> snip
> 
> If you are serious, I highly advise reading
> _Religion Explained_ by Pascal 
> Boyer.
> 
> Boyer does not have a complete model, but his field
> work and observations 
> have to be incorporated in any model.
> 
> I would use extreme caution in marketing any meme
> set that is intended to 
> compete with religions.  I have recently come to the
> extremely paranoid 
> view of religions as xenophobic meme reservoirs.
> 
> I suspect that the evolved trait of humans hosting
> religions at all is 
> connected to the irrational state humans enter when
> they unconsciously 
> perceive the need to kill neighbors because of a
> pending resource 
> crisis.  (Think Rwanda.)
> 
> I believe functional MRI could determine the actual
> brain areas involved, 
> just as it showed what gets activated when partisans
> defending their leaders.
> 
> Keith Henson
> 
> PS.  If history is any guide, your meme set is
> likely to mutate in ways 
> that make it more fit to human needs to justify wars
> in a time of pending 
> resource crunch.
> 
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Stuart LaForge
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick


 
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