>I've been avoiding this debate just to see where it goes, but I think
>I'll step in now... I beleive that we can only have /faith/ in
>rationality. As I see it, rationality /can not/ be used to defend
>itself. Ie. you cannot give reasons to become rational because that
>begs the question... If you are going to be convinced by the reasons
>given to be rational, you must already accept that reason works. So we
>must have faith: we must beleive in reason. And I see no way around
>that.
That's because you're stuck in a justificationist viewpoint. To escape,
read Max More's "Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for
Memetic Progress" at http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore/pcr.htm
>The CoV is founded on the principles and insights of memetics. The
>entire idea is to use memetic's to engineer an "everlasting" religion...
>one that evolves towards a system that more and more people think is
>well and good. (Ie. that evolves to infect more and more people)... it
>almost sounds evil, eh? Guess that is why it is hosted on lucifer.com.
The purpose isn't only to infect a bunch of people. That's just a side-effect
of being successful. And Lucifer is the "bringer-of-light".
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/