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Is religion a virus?
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Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" (September 2, 2023 at 8:18 pm)MarcusA Wrote:(September 2, 2023 at 8:03 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Soon... There will soon be a cure. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" (September 2, 2023 at 8:26 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(September 2, 2023 at 8:18 pm)MarcusA Wrote: There is no soon. There is no cure. Told ya! Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
“The human race has suffered for centuries and is still suffering from the mental disorder known as religion, and atheism is the only physician that will be able to effect a permanent cure.” (Joseph Lewis)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
Dawkins popularised the notion of religion being a meme or mind virus, and the metaphor has some merit.
People are generally easy to manipulate, and many have inbuilt psychological predispositions that make them susceptible to religion and magical thinking in particular. RE: Is religion a virus?
September 4, 2023 at 4:26 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2023 at 5:02 am by Anomalocaris.)
real viruses often have the wherewithal to jump species. I am afraid religion is so pathetic it is incapable of jumping species but will live and die with only that the most gullible of all species.
(September 4, 2023 at 4:26 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: real viruses often has the wherewithal to jump species. I am afraid religion is so pathetic it is incapable of jumping species but will live and die with only that the most gullible of all species. I wonder. I suspect some other hominids had rudimentary religious impulses (esp Neanderthals). I have no idea about the inner life of dolphins, chimps, pigs, crows and octopi etc. But more so I wonder about ETs and AIs ... Imagine a religious AI? Could be interesting. RE: Is religion a virus?
September 4, 2023 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2023 at 5:41 am by Anomalocaris.)
(September 4, 2023 at 4:28 am)FrustratedFool Wrote:(September 4, 2023 at 4:26 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: real viruses often has the wherewithal to jump species. I am afraid religion is so pathetic it is incapable of jumping species but will live and die with only that the most gullible of all species. Religion requires a very particular set of cognitive defects such as: 1. deriving more comfort from having any explanation than from having persistently verifiable and predictive explanations, or a parallel in having more delight in seemingly being able to cheat from a cheat sheet of dubious origin rather than accepting only answers which have been proven to be right or adequately predictive under the circumstances. 2. Having a fear of one’s own nonexistence greater than any satisfaction in having done the right thing for one’s community, species, and progeny It is not clear whether such cognitive defects are common to all intelligences, all biological intelligence, only intelligences which shared a great part of the particular evolution history with us, or only intelligence which were influenced by how civilization evolved under the particular circumstances in which our societies evolved. |
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