How fascinating…

Daniel Dennett insightfully described how ideas can control minds when he said, “The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.” In this regard, it is often not the brain that controls the mind, but the memes that compose the mind that control the brain. This is especially the case when the meme is a religion.

via Dr Bobby Azarian’s How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain: Fundamentalist ideologies act like mental parasites.