<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Henson</b> <<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
[Originally posted to the memetics group]<br><br>[This is a related to the threads about rational people.]<br><br>In correspondence with Eugene V Kooin, the author of the comment here:<br><br>><a href="http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/4/comment/1005">
http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/4/comment/1005</a><br>><br>> My main point, however, is a tribute to meme selection: the fittest will<br>> survive!<br><br>He commented:<br><br>snip<br><br>>. . . it is hard for me to understand how many people, including
<br>>biologists, can have such a negative attitude (sometimes, almost<br>>violently expressed) to this entire conceptual development. I suppose<br>>this in itself is a peculiar phenomenon to be understood from the point
<br>>of view of evolutionary psychology . . .</blockquote><div><br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Taxonomy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Taxonomy</a><br>
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Perhaps we can determine elements through organizational methods to project future memes for personal development?<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>Or perhaps these emotional bindings to scientific memes (plus religious and<br>
political memes) are a side effect of emotional bindings to xenophobic memes.<br><br>I recently made the case that the trait to pass around xenophobic memes and<br>go non-rational is an evolved species typical behavior of humans facing bad
<br>times. <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/17/194059/296">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/17/194059/296</a></blockquote><div><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br><br>Wars and captures were *major* selection factors in the EEA. It should not
<br>be a surprise if many of our deepest psychological traits were shaped by<br>such selection.<br><br>Comments?<br><br>Keith Henson<br><br>PS. The theory leads to the prediction that *this* theory will be met with<br>violent rejection by some. :-)
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By acclamation this meme is accepted, ha! Last time we really talked was at Extro 3 Keith, oh meme gravity well.<br>
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