Three Buiding Blocks for Human Belief Systems
I was watching an interview on Youtube called “Religion Explained through Evolution“. They had a couple of interesting points I had not heard before. What I had heard before was that “religion is universal”. What I did not know waas in which form. When I hear “religion” I tend to think of organized entities, with priests, dogma, etc. Those are actually very much cultural and not at all universal. What is, indeed, universal, are beliefs of invisible entities, able to act on our physical world, with which it is possible to interact. From there, one can wonder what makes it so universal? It seems that three psychological traits are mainly responsible for it. Each of those traits are independantly useful for our survival. The beliefs describe above are an emergent property. It is not itself a survival advantage, but is the inevitable consequence of: And there we have it. One…