Difficulties With Memetics

While I think the portrayal of how religions develop is a little simplistic, the advocacy for general religious education is right on. I agree that the obsession with some more fundamentalists idea that they should keep their children ignorant of other religions to keep beliefs pure is quite misguided.
I [...]

Posted at 8:53 pm on August 18, 2007 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Biological Evolution, Memetics, Morality, Social and Individual Adaptations | read on

Dan Dennett Speaking at TED2006

Technology Entertainment Design Conference 2006. The idea of teaching religion as a natural phenomenon, the limit of a parent’s right to influence his/her child’s moral education.

Posted at 1:34 am on August 17, 2007 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Biological Evolution, Memetics, Morality | read on

About

HERE WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE. WE ARE THE LAST GENERATION TO KNOW OF AN UNWIRED WORLD AND CONVERSELY WE WILL BE THE FIRST GENERATION TO WITNESS THE PROFOUND EFFECTS OF A TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLOSION. WAS THIS AN INEVITABILITY? WHERE ARE WE GOING AND WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

Chapters

1 A Brief Outline on the History of the Universe
2 Conceit on the Limits of Knowledge
3 Understanding Platonic Forms
4 List of Technological Eras
5 History of Moore’s Law
6 Law of Accelerating Returns
7 Conceit on the Limits of Reality
8 Special Relativity
9 Plato Revisited
10 Biological Evolution
11 Social and Individual Adaptations

  • Memetics

    • 12 Morality
    13 Theory of the Singularity
    14 New Paradigms of Evolution
    15 Finite Theory
    16 Reflections
    17 Resources and Bibliography

    Recently

    Categories

    Pages