Re: virus: More virian propositions

C.A. Cook (coreycook12@email.msn.com)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:37:49 -0500


Eric Boyd wrote:
>Virion Propositions:
>Memetic Axioms:
>1) evolution is the non random selection of randomly varying replicators.
>(Dawkins)
>
>2) the world of language, knowledge and belief in [a] human mind[s]
>provides an evolutationary environment; a meme is the simplest
>evolutationary unit operating in said environment.

Si.

>Virion propositions:
>
>3) God (as imagined by what you imagine most Christians believe, not the
>kind of "god of spontaneous order and complex systems" that neo-Darwinists
>might believe) does not exist. (David R.)
>
>4) If truth is the goal, rationality is the way (David McF.)
>
>5) "There is only one eternal truth (this one)." (David McF.)[1]
>
>6) Lucifer is the "bringer of light"

3=yes
4=yes
5=don't bother with eternal truths. let people work that out for
themselves.
6=Let's expand this a bit. Lucifer, the impulse to question authority (and
accept the results) will bring you to greater understanding.

>Extropian carry-overs:
>
>7) No mysteries are sacrosanct, no limits unquestionable; the unknown will
>yield to the ingenious mind. (Max More)

Yes! The guiding force in my life.

>I've tried to make these as basic as possible -- they form the core the
>virian mindset. Work needs to be done on number 2.

That's what we are trying to do here.

>[1] This may be the least secure of the bunch (that or #7).

What do you mean? What's wrong with 7?

>For instance, how about this as an eternal truth:
>"All true isosemantic statements about objective reality are
>non-contradictory"

We don't know that for sure yet. As far as we know, the universe
might be self-contradictory.

corey