Frames subjective self-awareness as a culturally transmitted package—spread through language, ritual, and psychoactives—rather than a uniformly ancient biological constant.
— Reorients nature–culture debates and interpretations of prehistory, with spillovers for education, ritual practices, and how institutions foster or transmit cognitive frameworks.
Rod Dreher
2026.03.12
85% relevant
Mary Harrington’s account that young people are being 'memed into' antisemitism (not argued into it) is a direct example of the claim that memes and viral digital formats change beliefs and collective consciousness; the conference framing treats these memetic shifts as causing religious re‑enchantment and movement formation.
Seeds of Science
2025.06.11
100% relevant
The 'primordial pronoun postulate' and the linkage of pronoun spread to recent self-awareness and ritual/psychedelic initiation as proposed in the article.
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