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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Grim story on cryonics
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:50:31 +0100
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On 13 Dec 2009, at 11:00 AM, Luke Parrish wrote:
>
>>>> Furthermore, irrational violence is neurological in nature,
>>
>>
>> No. TMT shows this is false. See:
>>
>> http://www.ernestbecker.org/
>>
>
> TMT is fascinating, but I do not see how it negates the point that all
> human behavior, irrational violence included, is neurological in  
> nature.
> Understanding how neurons fire is going to give future society a heck
> of a lot more understanding about why people are violent and how to
> prevent it.
>
> I don't see how a literate person could reach any contrary conclusion.
> TMT is completely irrelevant to my point.

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf

The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional  
Psychosociological Conditions


The nonuniversality of strong religious devotion, and the ease with  
which large populations abandon serious theism when conditions are  
sufficiently benign, refute hypotheses that religious belief and  
practice are the normal, deeply set human mental state, whether they  
are superficial or natural in nature. Instead popular religion is  
usually a superficial and flexible psychological mechanism for coping  
with the high levels of stress and anxiety produced by sufficiently  
dysfunctional social and especially economic environments. Popular  
nontheism is a similarly casual response to superior conditions.


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David Stodolsky
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