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There's a theory that religion, as well as being a parasitic meme, is also an inoculation against newer and more damaging memes: http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/rea
by khafra 16y ago
There's a theory that religion, as well as being a parasitic meme, is also an inoculation against newer and more damaging memes: http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorder/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...
- theoj 16y agoI wanted to say the same thing as soon as I saw the article. You can look at religions as memes or viruses that propagate from person to person.