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On 12/06/2022 21:33, Darin Sunley wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:mailman.39.1655065995.1444.extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">Human
beings are hard-wired to attribute agency to anything with
sufficiently complex and environmentally-contextual behavior.
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<div>This is why pagan gods are a thing</div>
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'Pagan' gods? That qualification basically rules out any gods the
reader happens to believe in, making the whole sentence meaningless
(and perpetuating religious arguments: "your belief in <i>your</i>
gods are explainable by evolution. Mine are still real, though").
I'd say the agency-attribution tendency explains religion in
general. If we didn't have it (and managed to survive), religion
wouldn't be a thing, and gods would never have been conceived of at
all.<br>
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Ben<br>
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