Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA11038 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:06:29 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-Id: <AA-B8FC3C13EC5C5A0E27C32CDF9ABD28B1-ZZ@homebase1.prodigy.net> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:02:38 -0500 From: "Philip Jonkers" <PHILIPJONKERS@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: Scientology Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Frankie:
>There should be another category too though: memes
arising from
>logical errors. As in the woman who, after breaking
up with her
>boyfriend, declares that "All men are assholes."
Overgeneralization
>is a common logical error. Cognitive therapy says
that people are
>prone to many different but common errors of logic,
especially during
>childhood, when our brains are less developed.
Therapy involves
>revisiting childhood learning experiences
and "relearning" things
>(correcting errors of logic) (modifying memes?).
There are lists out
>there of the common logical errors to which humans
are prone.
No. Ted may rightfully argue that memes based on
logical error are pathological memes too as they
testify of a perverted way of regarding reality.
If you come to the conclusion that
`all men are assholes', you have just discovered a
new pathological meme yourself. We are not all
assholes dammit! (Pardon my French)
Philip.
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