Re:Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism?
by RichardCA on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:05AM
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> I don't know why, but humans are hard wired for religion.
As Richard Feynman once said, in order to answer a "why" you need to be in a framework where you allow things to be true.
I'm not sure we're hardwired for religion, but it's pretty clear were hardwired for semiotics. Try to look at something without your brain picking out symbols to assign to everything. This is the thing we do all the time but can't seem to teach computers how to do.
So there is a certain seductive logic in viewing God as just another attempt the brain makes to sort things out on the symbolic level.
As Richard Feynman once said, in order to answer a "why" you need to be in a framework where you allow things to be true.
I'm not sure we're hardwired for religion, but it's pretty clear were hardwired for semiotics. Try to look at something without your brain picking out symbols to assign to everything. This is the thing we do all the time but can't seem to teach computers how to do.
So there is a certain seductive logic in viewing God as just another attempt the brain makes to sort things out on the symbolic level.