[ExI] ai is the easy road

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] ai is the easy road

 


>…The question is, why do humans have religions? Or maybe that is the wrong way around. Why do religions (considered as mental parasites) have people?


Keith

 

 

Keith you pointed out that humans are able to create larger stable groups than our cousins the chimps and bonobos.  Think of religion not so much as a mind parasite but as a technique or basis for stabilizing large groups of humans, enabling them to work in parallel.  

 

This view has its consequences: we argue that diversity is our strength.  If religion creates a common basis for society, then diversity is our weakness.  That view predicts the existence of multiple religions results a reduction in cohesiveness of a society.

 

spike

 

 

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