Welcome to the list.
> 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.
Hmmm...I'll comment further on.
> 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?
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.
True; genetically determined abilities and tendencies can affect what
ideas come easily to a person or population. Obviously, a completely
color-blind population will not readily develop color-related traditions,
but it is possible they would adopt them if the ideas were introduced by
another population that did have color vision.
> 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?
It sounds to me as if you are assuming that which is to be proven: that
there are overall genetic differences in certain cognitive abilities
between the populations of different areas of the world. I have not seen
any compelling evidence that this is the case.
Have you read Steven Jay Gould's book _The Mismeasure of Man_? I do not
know whether it is available in Polish (I didn't find a Polish version
with a search of Amazon.com's site), but I highly recommend it if you
haven't read it.
--Eva