Diego Fontanive

"Meta-Memetic Thinking and Skepticism as a Meme" An exercise in a course I developed consists in asking candidates who consider themselves sceptical to create a voodoo doll and add to it a picture representing the face of a loved one. They must perforate the doll using a needle. The majority of them refuse to take the test or manifest psychological frictions despite their awareness about the irrationality involved. An appropriate inquiry regarding scepticism is: what does it mean to be ‘sceptic