What I read is that religion was a way to codify habits for survival. Pork meat that spoils quickly in a dessert climate is a health hazard, but people ate it anyway, but when the old guy says it angers the gods the chances of obeying is a lot bigger. That kind of thing. Of course when people obey gods there are those that claim to speak for the gods.
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oce@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I’ve read a nice book from a French skepticism popularizer trying to explain the evolutionary origin of cognitive bias, basically the bias that fucks with our logic today probably helped us survive in the past. For example, agent detection bias make us interpret the sound of a twig snapping in the woods as if some dangerous animal or person was tracking us. So we put an intention or an agent behind a random natural occurence. This could also be what religions grew from.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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spongebue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
English pronunciation can be difficult, though through tough thorough thought, it can generally be figured out
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
A lot of behaviors that would be advantageous in a pre-technical setting are troublesome today.
A guy who likes to get blackout drunk and fight is a nice thing to have when your whole army is about ten guys. The one who will sit and stare at nothing all day is a wonderful lookout. People who obsess about little things would know all the plants that are safe to eat.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Those who saw tigers where there were none were more likely to pass on their genes than those that didn’t see the tiger hiding in the foliage.
And now their descendants see tigers in the stars.