The book i promoted at vFRIAM - Excellent Beauty by Eric Dietrich does a good job of dealing with the question "why religion" AND "why science?" Pretty much the same question.
Anyone aware of a religion that claims an afterlife that is other than "eternal damnation" or "eternal bliss." Some kind of existence that is not basically static. I have been looking and yet to find one. Different nuances of course, but all basically claiming a static state. BTW this includes the static state of "nothingness." Mormonism is an exception, but I and trying to find if it is the only one. davew On Sat, May 23, 2020, at 9:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Russ, > > Hawking my wares again. I am sorry but SOMEBODY has to read this crap. The > argument of this paper > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311349078_The_many_perils_of_ejective_anthropomorphism> > is that the flow of inference is actually in the other direction. We model > our view of ourselves on our experience with others. > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2020 9:39 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] God > > The theory which makes some sense to me is that we humans (as social > creatures) have evolved to anthropomorphise. This make sense for dealing with > other humans, who might be competitors, or compatriots. And the modelling > makes use of a remarkable trick - observe one's own mind, and use those > observations to model somebody else's mind. This explains why we have > self-awareness, if not consciousness. > > The thing is, the same trick also works quite well with other animals, who > may be predators or prey, irrespective of whether other species actually have > minds or not. > > So it makes sense that when some relatively rare phenomenon occurs, perhaps a > thunderstorm, that the alpha male stands up and makes threatening noises. And > it seems to work when the thunder goes away > > > eventually. And so the thunderstorm has been anthropomorphised. This got > extended to other phenomenon, eg famines get blamed on angry gods who can be > appeased by making the appropriate offerings. Eventually con-artists > exploited this with ever more elaborate stories that leveraged this innate > tendency to anthromorphise. I'm sure astrology started out as a cunning plan > to garner research funds for early astonomers from ignorant kings. > > Like most evolutionary stories, this is a "just so" story. But I think it has > a grain of truth. > > Cheers, Russell > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... > ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... > ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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