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Michal Kulczycki (88802@dawid.uni.wroc.pl)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:57:22 +0200


Hello everyone!

At the beginning I must beg you to forgive my English. I understand written
& spoken very good, I have no problems understanding Lovecraft poetry as
well as rappers, which should prove something, but I do hate write in it.
And I hate just because I am unable to avoid horrible errors. Traditionally,
as a Slavian, I have a big problem with articles (we don't have any) and
commas (as well as the rest of English interpunction, ours differ too much&
is too complicated). Please be tolerant and try to understand me even when
it's impossible ;-)
Last thing, when I put such sequence - '[?]' in the middle of a sentence it
means that I've just 'created' the word before and I am not sure whether
it's understandable at all. I am widely open for your corrections.

My name is Michal, in fact the last letter - 'l' is not correctly spelled,
but I am sure that your e-readers wouldn't display original one since it's a
Polish diacritic sign. As you probably know already, in English my name is
Michael. So, please call me Mike or Ronan (my favourite nick).

I study psychology on University of Wroclaw, Poland (former Breslau
Universitat), the place where the modern psychology started to develop. My
main interests are: cognitive science, evolutionism, various neurosciences,
maths, astrophysics, OOP programming ObjPas (currently Delphi), algorythms,
theories of information, system dependencies, chaos, also ancient and modern
philosophy, comparative religions, chess, kick-boxing, 'Dune' and CoS
satanism.

I have read about this e-list in a book (in Polish) called "The Genetics of
Culture" by one of you former subscribers - Mariusz Biedrzycki. It is about
two months since I've signed up to 'CoV' and I belive I can 'speak up'.
Anyway, it is getting to lenghty..but man can get really confused analyzing
your e-mail adresses & names. Ad rem:

I'm working on an article concerning religions in view of cognitive
abilities of specific nations, races - ethnical groups generally speaking.
My aim is to prove these things do affect each other, and there maybe a
cognitive explanation of some religious phenomens.

As we all know, meme doesn't 'care' whether it's pollitically correct, nice,
easy etc, - he replicates. Those memes which replicate easily win the battle
and spread themeselves exponentialy. Right?
Such meme influences events just to create a less hostile environment for
himself.
Meme spreads, culture evolves and so on. AFAIK, please correct me if I am
wrong, the 'genetic success' of a meme depends on his 'story'. If it's true,
cognitive abilities must affect the ease with which particular memes
replicate. Of course, I mean very large scale of such process.
Eg. if there is a nation particulary colour-sensitive (fiction) colour-memes
will spread more efficient than say sound-memes in such population.
Therefore, cognitive abilities like spatial and verbal ones (without any
doubt also racial-determined) should imply nation-specific religion (which
I'll call 'Level 1 religion'). L1 religions evolve, they are divided,
modified, flourish and perfect themselves, they become L2,3, and 4
religions. However, they don't lose their very basic cognitive 'taste', kind
of 'brain-background'.
If above statements are true (are they?) we should find more abstract
(spatial) godforms in Asia, and more verbal ('theistic', antropomorphic) in
Europe.

And we DO!

Would you like to coment?

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Best regards

Michal Kulczycki University of Wroclaw, Psychology Dept. E-mail: 88802@dawid.uni.wroc.pl ICQ #: 8954988