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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Allsop<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] de Waal<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>>…</span> People that do that, naturally, able to form larger hierarchies, and better well defining who they are, and who the heathens are, the more survivable the large co-orating group.<span style='color:windowtext'>..</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Brent Allsop<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Ja. Even the most introverted among us may know the great joy and feels-so-rightness of being part of a big group acting in unison. My best example is a marching band. A hundred or more teenagers marching out in unison on the football field and blasting the wildly cheering crowd out of their socks is a feeling I can scarcely compare to any other. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Think of religion as a kind of technology that gets people moving and acting in focused and disciplined unison. I know it leads to the controversial notion of group selection in evolution, but I have been a believer in group selection ever since I read Darwin’s description of it. That whole notion makes sense to me, how you can simultaneously have individual selection and group selection acting at the same time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Religions promote group selection. Brent, it’s why we have so many LDS people. We are happy about that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>