Wealth-Neutrality and Education

“Those holding wealth-neutral schemes for evaluating themselves and others feel less driven to succeed financially…People who measure their merit in terms of knowledge often make excellent students, but the best students less often become the wealthiest adults – despite education’s image as a route to economic success.”

(p23)

Thought Contagion: How belief spreads through society (the new science of memes)

Aaron Lynch, 1996

Dawkins quoting Darwin on his Theory of Natural Selection

“I doubt whether the use of any term would have made the subject intelligible to some minds.”

[In predicting whether the idea, or rather the term, “Natural Selection”, would survive, Darwin reveals his own latent understanding of memetics…]

“Whether it will be rejected must now depend on “The survival of the fit…”

p180, Darwin’s 1866 Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences

in p87 of Dawkins’ Extended Phenotype

Justifiable by Socialization

“The church relieved the individual believer of the need to justify himself”

(p73)

The Inward Turn of the Narrative

Erich Kahler

1970 (German), 1973 (English trans: Richard and Clara Winston, Princeton U. Press)

Thought Experiments

“Thought experiments are not supposed to be realistic. They are supposed to clarify our thinking about reality.”

(p4)

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Richard Dawkins, 1982

1999 edition w afterword by Daniel Dennett

New and Improved

“It’s not reality, but it works better…”,

Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Mind, RSA, TED, 2011

And so we must ask, in essence, are not things seen in terms of their usefulness as opposed to whether they are true or false?

The Mutant

Madness is only a memetic-mutation

Activation

The Mass Transference Device has been Activated..

http://www.scribd.com/selfreplicate