‘I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.’
— Kurt Cobain
The brain is mediated by cultural units of information called memes, which are acquired via social interaction from meme pools.
We actively metabolize belief.
Flow is to the mind, to the spirit, what mating is to our genes. It’s memes instead of genes.
— @JasonSilva
A memetic model for statism
Trojan memes are memes that act as a backdoor, providing a vector for an attacker to infect the brain with retro-memes that use the trojan horse to spread through the associational cortex of the brain. Trojan memes co-opt genetic imperatives such as fear, to bypass the executive function and filtering.
Psychiatry — a pseudo-science (1) — has used medical science as a trojan meme, to gain backdoor access into meme pools, where it has functioned as a trojan horse in itself. This can be discovered empirically through claiming that psychiatry is pseudo-science, or that mental illness is a religious belief, and then observing the blood pressure of the defendant.
Law as a mediating system
Law could be defined as a technological extension of the human brain’s ability to co-ordinate and form organization with other brains. Industrial tools extend our muscles, digital tools extend our minds, and law as a tool extends the ways in which we can organize as a society.
Laws facilitate package transport of memes, and co-ordinates action across multiple brains. The human brain has a memory limit known as dunbar’s number, pre-technology meme pools do not scale beyond 150 individuals. Technology like writing, currency and legal code, religions, made it possible to co-ordinate at scales beyond dunbar’s number.
Laws co-ordinate action through attention networks. They tap into genetic imperatives such as territory, or fear, which then direct attention to the memeplex which codes for the law, and amplifies its action, and its effect on other resident memes.
Laws are protocols that govern the spread of memes, and the infusion of memes into brains. Moral law as a protocol is enforced through fear using threat of violence.
Legal Coercion as the Cause of Mental Illness: Moral Law is Enforced Using Fear
Moral is a trojan meme which uses fear, a genetic imperative, to bypass the executive function of the brain.
The code to a high mental health is to use high degree of executive control, enabling cleaner information processing. Trojan memes, morality, ethics, authority, hijack sub-conscious circuits in the limbic system such as fear, and bypass executive control, leading to unregulated infection of memes, mental illness, and lower mental health.
Trojan memes such as morality act as pathological memes (2), which decrease the integrity of the brain, decreases regulation of inflow of memes, and makes it susceptible to mental illness.
Legal coercion prevents executive control through the use of violence, and leads to decreased self-regulation, unregulated infection of memes, mental illness. (3)
The best possible treatment against coercion, to achieve higher regulation of meme inflow and decreased mental illness, is a fight response, which leads to selfish opportunist decision making, self-control, and also applies a force against the coercive entity. The fight response gets rid of the internal component which decreases self-regulation of memes - belief in the system - and the brain is left to deal with the external component - legal coercion - and has improved its mental health. (3)
The fight response purges the brain of pathological memes
The “fight response” leads to increased executive-frontal lobe functioning, improved self-regulation, improves over-all goal-directed behavior, and engages the parts of the brain that are diminished during episodes of obedience, through the limbic system overriding the cortex. (3)
When activating in a fight response, the limbic system overrides to cortex and purges it from belief in that which is not beneficial to it. (4)
To a moral legal system, selfishness and aggression is immoral, and psychiatry must therefore be amoral, apolitical. Moral psychiatry, or altruistic psychiatry, will not be as efficient in combating mental illness as the “New Psychiatry” would be.
The answer to living free is not “become a citizen”. Fear is the mind killer.
— @undocumentedhuman
References
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@newpsychiatry/legal-coercion-as-the-cause-of-mental-illness
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@johan-nygren/law-memes-and-mental-illness-towards-a-new-psychiatry
About the New Psychiatry project
The #NewPsychiatry builds on Hoyle Leigh's brilliant seminal work Genes, Memes, Culture and Mental Illness: Towards an Integrative Model (2010), and looks at how legal systems and human brains interact. The project is designed to compete head-on with other psychiatric practices over authority as a branch of medical science, and to gradually displace and disprove other psychiatric practices, which has been an ongoing progress for the past 200 years since the protoscience psychiatry was born.
The project plans to use a reputation system to build up a form of academia around the framework. Over the next couple of years, web 3.0 services will be made available to the global population, and they will gradually drop out of previous consensus trances, and this new psychiatry would accompany that phase change and teach people about these things.
What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both, neither? The answer can be found in memes-replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture—whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic.
- Hoyle Leigh