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Reply #65: Religion isn't wired into our brains, it is a side effect of various cognitive biases. [View All]

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Odin2005

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Fri Jan-02-09 04:48 PM
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65. Religion isn't wired into our brains, it is a side effect of various cognitive biases.

The main one being our tendency of anthropomorphizing non-human entities. This is because in pre-modern societies our epi-phenomenal "social reality" of purposeful, conscious agents was not distinguished from the actual physical reality. This kind of thinking leads to a kind of "naive animism", that that is the basis or the notion of gods, spirits, etc.

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