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2 papers in the library · publishing 2025

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Against the “Meme Machine”: Normativity, Qualia and “Self”

Arts, Culture and Language December 19, 2025 Yutong Zhang

This paper critiques the strong “meme theory” advanced by Susan Blackmore, which claims that all mental phenomena like consciousness, agency, and selfhood can be reduced to the replication and competition of memes. While memetics offers valuable insights into cultural evolution, its explanatory power becomes limited when extended to the philosophy of mind. Two main challenges have developed....

Explore the reason why people deeply believe in occultism practice

Arts, Culture and Language February 26, 2025 Lichan Wang

This paper analyzes why people are willing to believe occultism practice such as tarot from a psychological perspective. From four different angles, this work not only analyzes the principle behind the possible operation of tarot cards, but also explores human psychology of tarot cards. The final conclusions can be divided into different schools. According to Jung’s collective unconscious...