> Well, I loved your first post, quite interesting. I am curious about your
> definitions of L2, L3 and L4 religions. I did agree with what you were saying
> though. The last sentence confuses me a litte, i need a reason why the Asian
> religions would be more abstract. What in that area of the world culture wise)
> would help the meme in develope that way. I guess my quesation is: Are you
> suggesting that there is something about Asian culture that would more easily
> support abstract god thinking instead of the west's monotheistic view??
> As A. J. Greimas states in Chapter 10 of "On Meaning" (titled 'Knowing and
Believing: A Single Cognitive Universe), the only difference between
these two is external to the mind (the presence or absence of
evidence). The neuronal/synaptic flow patterns corresponding to
these two states of mind are indistinguishable.
> Thanks
> Sodom
> Bill Roh
>
> 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
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