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RE: SELF FULFILLING PROPHESY: You caused it!

in #life7 years ago
Maybe I should have considered the fact that your name is @rethinkingbelief

Yeah, sometimes you can judge a book by its cover or in this case my name. :-)

This is what I get when I Google “argument”:
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“I can assure you that it didn't ‘turn the world upside-down.”

That’s because it hasn’t clicked yet. :-)

Mentioning that it uses chemicals in the brain without mentioning what chemicals doesn't make it compelling enough.

That’s right! You’re asking a great question that needs to be addressed. I’m trying to keep my posts down to around 1000 words and after the general topics are introduced I will get into specifics. The “brain chemicals beliefs use” post is on my to do list. In the meantime you can watch a video I did on the subject: Ep02 How Beliefs Work (It’s not great but it will give you an idea of where I’m going with this.)

I didn’t think you were downplaying beliefs’ power but honestly I’m trying to be a bit provocative with you to see how you question the idea. This will allow me to adjust how I present the evidence in future blog posts.

And again you’re right about no hard scientific evidence for memes and that’s because there are no “hard” ways to measure them. How do you measure an idea or belief after all? (Blog post!) There is however a massive amount of hard scientific data that supports the idea of memes. Put another way, scientific theories (facts) support the meme hypothesis and that's what my blog is all about.

I don’t think there is anything more important than understanding human behavior because if we get it right we can solve humanities problems. If the problem is “we don’t understand the problem,” then it’s easy to see why we still have problems! Memes not only provide a way to understand human behavior but the solutions. That’s my ultimate goal.

Thanks for reading my blog posts and this ridiculously long reply. :-)