Re: virus: Rationality

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:16:40 GMT


At 09:18 25/02/97 GMT, Drakir wrote:

>Hang on, does this mean that If I take logic and rationality to be
>memes, and realise how to bypass their effect, I would be post-rational?
>Is that good or bad? :)

Hey, become post-moral, too. There's no such thing as good or bad, only
things that you and you tribe like/agree with or dislike/disagree with.

I reckon thinking that Formal Logic is a memetically-transmitted skill
(therefore a meme-complex), and that rationality is a bit of a myth, helps
explain a lot about how people argue, interact, and how scientists and
philosophers actually debate things and work things out.

Dave Pape
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