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superstition was humanity’s first science, and is the science by which we’ve acquired all the others
by nacozarina 11mo ago
superstition was humanity’s first science, and is the science by which we’ve acquired all the others
- troyka 11mo agoAnd superstition is a good example of our brains trying to overcome its limits by just gambling on the outcome / being probabilistic. Maybe guessing is the right call in absense of other options. If part of a species guesses correctly, it can continue and reproduce. But if it insists on being 100% sure it would be wiped out quickly.