Comment on Call for discussion: Signalling and/vs. accomplishment

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:20:45 GMT

Yes, these people certainly are memetic mutants (to the extent you can make the analogy to genetics), inasmuch as religion has served as a terminal value (or as close as you get in humans minds) for pretty much all of humanity since the species arose, and the irreligiosity meme as we know it only arose since the Enlightenment.

But don't feel bad, all our genes arose by mutation if you trace them back far enough, and we can say that about most memes as well.

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