From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 08:57:57 MDT
> The best way to battle these silly memes, really, would be to somehow inject
> more rationality into childrens' education. But that seems fairly
> difficult, perhaps more so than getting to adults...
>
> ben
>
It would be a whole lot easier to teach children rationality if their parents
hadn't already cognitively crippled them with their own belief systems and
political memes. Come the singularity, it will be a felony to infect innocent
children with irrational beliefs.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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