RE: Religion and Science are 1000% Opposite
October 24, 2017 at 7:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2017 at 7:47 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(October 24, 2017 at 7:01 am)JackRussell Wrote: Well Morton's Demon must have been on the ark, definite signs of the persistence of that beastie.
Had to look up Morton's demon. Yep. Maybe it is possible to explain theists like Huggy acting as ignorance filters.
The school of thermo-economics describes people and businesses as MEPUs (Maximum Entropy Production Units). In an economic system we buy goods which then get used and disposed of, or refined and sold on, each step requiring usable energy leading to more waste.
Theists like Huggy could be units which function to maximise the production of ignorance. Information flows along until it meets a MIPU like Huggy and only the information that propagates ignorance is let through and passed on. These then provide the raw ideas needed to form memes like intelligent design which then spread throughout an ignorant population as if it were a living organism.
Of course as with Maxwell's demon there needs to be a cost in performing the filtering. The increase in ignorance comes at a cost of progress. It would be consistent with the idea of religious belief as a behaviour altering parasite. Religious belief carries a cost for the believer by changing its behaviour to spend time, effort and money to propagate the parasitic meme to others.
MIPUs like Huggy are not just wanting to spread the infection to new hosts but to help prepare the environment for new infections to occur. You can make an argument that businesses are a higher form of life made up of people that are also alive, in the same way that humans are made up of whole populations of bacteria which are also alive, and also like how cells contain living smaller cells that were subsumed much earlier on in evolutionary history. In the same way Huggy is part of a collective of parasites. Like a swarm of bees make up a super organism, Huggy is part of a super parasite (a church) trying to gain control of host societies.