I agree. If a person has faith, it should be their own faith based on their own experiences. There are people who have faith in other unexplained phenomena besides Gods, some of those are karma, ghosts, UFO's, etc. Regardless of what they believe or their personal observable gnosis of which they draw that conclusion, it should be something that the person alone dictates.
I tend to look a memetics very differently than most. I see our minds are primarily composed of memes. Our society/culture is composed of set of memes competing for dominance in our heads which causes people to align themselves in religions, nationality, families, business, classes, occupation, interest groups, communities, friends, etc. In this model I'm having trouble seeing what is a monomeme, in that no meme exists by itself (cont).
I think you may be talking more about the level of dominance that a single memeset maintains within an individual mind. If so, my impression is that the tendency for the brain to ultimately make one memeset dominant over the others, happens regardless of how you try to engineer what other memes you expose it to. Depending on the dominance of the top memeset, the brain will normally seek to reinforce it thru modification of existing contrary memes and filtering of external memes.
Actually atheism only requires that a person doesn't believe in god. Any attempt to expand it to require other meemes like reliance on reason or science would be a subclass of atheists, much as christians is a specific form of theism.
I thought I was careful to discuss atheism "as a commonly understood collection of ideas that includes the concept that there is no god, etc." or something to that effect.
Actually this is a semantic peeve of mine. Atheism like theism are really classes of beliefs center around the existence of god. If you do a big enough search you can find all kind of atheist to include communists, nazis, new age, buddhists, and other supernaturalists and paranormal believers that I find just as revolting as theism.
I agree. If a person has faith, it should be their own faith based on their own experiences. There are people who have faith in other unexplained phenomena besides Gods, some of those are karma, ghosts, UFO's, etc. Regardless of what they believe or their personal observable gnosis of which they draw that conclusion, it should be something that the person alone dictates.
BlueFireWitch 4 years ago
I tend to look a memetics very differently than most. I see our minds are primarily composed of memes. Our society/culture is composed of set of memes competing for dominance in our heads which causes people to align themselves in religions, nationality, families, business, classes, occupation, interest groups, communities, friends, etc. In this model I'm having trouble seeing what is a monomeme, in that no meme exists by itself (cont).
BigAtheist 4 years ago
I think you may be talking more about the level of dominance that a single memeset maintains within an individual mind. If so, my impression is that the tendency for the brain to ultimately make one memeset dominant over the others, happens regardless of how you try to engineer what other memes you expose it to. Depending on the dominance of the top memeset, the brain will normally seek to reinforce it thru modification of existing contrary memes and filtering of external memes.
BigAtheist 4 years ago
Nice monomeme.
BigAtheist 4 years ago
Quite so! My position on memetics is itself a meme, and subject to the same concerns. If not, it would be enough simply to be aware of the problem.
johnmciann 4 years ago
Actually atheism only requires that a person doesn't believe in god. Any attempt to expand it to require other meemes like reliance on reason or science would be a subclass of atheists, much as christians is a specific form of theism.
BigAtheist 4 years ago
I thought I was careful to discuss atheism "as a commonly understood collection of ideas that includes the concept that there is no god, etc." or something to that effect.
johnmciann 4 years ago
Actually this is a semantic peeve of mine. Atheism like theism are really classes of beliefs center around the existence of god. If you do a big enough search you can find all kind of atheist to include communists, nazis, new age, buddhists, and other supernaturalists and paranormal believers that I find just as revolting as theism.
BigAtheist 4 years ago