RE: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 06:28:45 GMT

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    >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:02:17 -0500
    > memetics@mmu.ac.uk Keith Henson <hkhenson@cogeco.ca> RE: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory PerceptionReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >
    >At 08:41 PM 19/01/02 -0800, "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
    > wrote:
    >
    >snip
    >
    >>I think that as long as exclusivist patriarchal monotheisms that are
    >>manipulable by fanatics (largely on the basis of what is indeed written in
    >>their holy books) to inspire holy murder inhere in this world and command
    >>power over the affairs of nations and sway over the minds of the
    >>fundamentalist faithful, we will be stuck with a bloody memetic problem.
    >
    >I think the situation is that bad and even worse because I don't think much
    >progress is going to be made before memetics and the evolved reward
    >pathways memes use are understood well enough to make concrete proposals
    >about how to deal with the problems. It might well be that we need to
    >create a better religion (or something) specifically designed to replace
    >the nasty elements of that culture.
    >
    >It also could be that secular memes of tolerance of the west are already
    >doing that and they just need to be pushed along a bit. A lot could happen
    >I bet with some small scale funding of people with more moderate ideas.
    >
    >Keith Henson
    >
    The Church of Virus is indeed attempting to memetically engineer a religion that paradoxically values logic, rationality, the scientific method and provisional evidence-grounded knowledge over blind faith and dogmatic belief. Their 'patron saint' is Charles Darwin.
    >
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