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We're still talking about God? There must be something to this "God" idea that is important / common to humanity.

• sjwright 12y ago
  The gullibility of children, usefully instilled into us by natural selection. The fear of death, usefully instilled into us by natural selection. Human minds have no experience of not existing, and tend to find the concept difficult to comprehend. We desire answers, but unfortunately the human condition is to prefer wrong answers over no answer.
  • amelius 12y ago
    Human brains also deceive us into believing we are distinct entities, whereas in reality the universe is probably a single entity.
    • sjwright 12y ago
      Cute, and in some respects insightful, but as a contribution it's arguably an equivocation on the definition of entity. You could similarly argue that human brains deceive us into believing we are distinct entities, whereas in reality we are billions of entities experiencing the emergent properties of multi-cellular life.
    • elwell 12y ago
      > probably a single entity "Probably"? How about "surely" or "surely not"? Is an entity comprised of many things or one thing? Does it matter? Are you merely pointing out that there is no true separation between anything and everything that exists? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism
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