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Yes! IMO, it starts making more sense when you start to see why and how delusional cultural beliefs are actually evolutionarily adaptive for the species, and yo
by trevyn 8y ago
Yes! IMO, it starts making more sense when you start to see why and how delusional cultural beliefs are actually evolutionarily adaptive for the species, and you can start looking for the neurological structures of belief and consciousness. Never before in history has philosophy of mind been supported by detailed neural imaging technologies and computational neural simulacra.
I’ve been digging Ecclesiastes lately, except the “nothing makes sense” refrain transforms to “actually, with understanding of modern neuroscience and AI, everything makes perfect sense.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=CEV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&...
(And, of course, “God” translates to “the machine that is the universe” and/or “the character in this fairytale that humans told each other well before the Enlightenment.”)