djcb comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: djcb 04 September 2011 11:12:16PM 1 point [-]

An example of a well-known non-trivial similarity would be the flood-myths that many cultures have -- it seems that least some of those myths are related somehow - but not in inherited psycho-analytical way (!) that Campbell suspects, but more likely simply due to copying the stories (e.g. Noah, Gilgamesh).