Cognitive Thrift 59 – Ancestors
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/02/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Thought is hard. It costs a lot. Our ancestors had less resources to spend on those things in terms of coming to correct beliefs about the world.
Rosner: You can see gods as hypotheses. People didn’t talk like that back then. But if you’re going to invent explanations for stuff, invisible helpers is going to be a durable explanation because it is hard to disprove because they are invisible.
Sometimes, they are invisible because people have mistaken perceptions and come to mistaken conclusions.
Jacobsen: This reflects the mystics’ views now. For instance, their communion with the Holy Guardian Angel. It has by no means disappeared, by and large.
Rosner: People are going to invent things you can’t see or put things into a morally satisfying framework.
Jacobsen: There might be overriding things to do with community because any reason to have a community in any case is better than none.
Rosner: Yea.
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