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Michal Kulczycki wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> At the beginning I must beg you to forgive my English. I understand written
> & spoken very good, I have no problems understanding Lovecraft poetry as
> well as rappers, which should prove something, but I do hate write in it.
> And I hate just because I am unable to avoid horrible errors. Traditionally,
> as a Slavian, I have a big problem with articles (we don't have any) and
> commas (as well as the rest of English interpunction, ours differ too much&
> is too complicated). Please be tolerant and try to understand me even when
> it's impossible ;-)
> Last thing, when I put such sequence - '[?]' in the middle of a sentence it
> means that I've just 'created' the word before and I am not sure whether
> it's understandable at all. I am widely open for your corrections.
>
> My name is Michal, in fact the last letter - 'l' is not correctly spelled,
> but I am sure that your e-readers wouldn't display original one since it's a
> Polish diacritic sign. As you probably know already, in English my name is
> Michael. So, please call me Mike or Ronan (my favourite nick).
>
> I study psychology on University of Wroclaw, Poland (former Breslau
> Universitat), the place where the modern psychology started to develop. My
> main interests are: cognitive science, evolutionism, various neurosciences,
> maths, astrophysics, OOP programming ObjPas (currently Delphi), algorythms,
> theories of information, system dependencies, chaos, also ancient and modern
> philosophy, comparative religions, chess, kick-boxing, 'Dune' and CoS
> satanism.
>
> I have read about this e-list in a book (in Polish) called "The Genetics of
> Culture" by one of you former subscribers - Mariusz Biedrzycki. It is about
> two months since I've signed up to 'CoV' and I belive I can 'speak up'.
> Anyway, it is getting to lenghty..but man can get really confused analyzing
> your e-mail adresses & names. Ad rem:
>
> I'm working on an article concerning religions in view of cognitive
> abilities of specific nations, races - ethnical groups generally speaking.
> My aim is to prove these things do affect each other, and there maybe a
> cognitive explanation of some religious phenomens.
>
> As we all know, meme doesn't 'care' whether it's pollitically correct, nice,
> easy etc, - he replicates. Those memes which replicate easily win the battle
> and spread themeselves exponentialy. Right?
> Such meme influences events just to create a less hostile environment for
> himself.
> Meme spreads, culture evolves and so on. AFAIK, please correct me if I am
> wrong, the 'genetic success' of a meme depends on his 'story'. If it's true,
> cognitive abilities must affect the ease with which particular memes
> replicate. Of course, I mean very large scale of such process.
> Eg. if there is a nation particulary colour-sensitive (fiction) colour-memes
> will spread more efficient than say sound-memes in such population.
> Therefore, cognitive abilities like spatial and verbal ones (without any
> doubt also racial-determined) should imply nation-specific religion (which
> I'll call 'Level 1 religion'). L1 religions evolve, they are divided,
> modified, flourish and perfect themselves, they become L2,3, and 4
> religions. However, they don't lose their very basic cognitive 'taste', kind
> of 'brain-background'.
> If above statements are true (are they?) we should find more abstract
> (spatial) godforms in Asia, and more verbal ('theistic', antropomorphic) in
> Europe.
>
> And we DO!
>
> Would you like to coment?
> --
> Best regards
>
> Michal Kulczycki
> University of Wroclaw, Psychology Dept.
> E-mail: 88802@dawid.uni.wroc.pl
> ICQ #: 8954988