Are Myths Valuable?

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How we are biologically programmed to perceive the world is not the same thing as how we abstract or spin truths from what we perceive.

I’d say that how our brains perceive
reality/the world and how our brains perceive truth, are one and the same.

Now the question could be how much of brains perceptions of reality, is a product of how our brains have developed over billions of years, vs over the course 20-30 years of individual histories. You might think the bulk of our perceptions are shaped by our short individual histories, but that seems highly unlikely, its false myth often peddled by atheists.

The differences in our beliefs may be accounted for by our unique histories, but how our brains derived such beliefs, are unlikely to be all that different.

If that was the case, then it wouldn't be reason/rationality at all, but just passions/rationalizations. That's a rather cynical conclusion from the given facts.

The idea of that we possess some sort of free floating reason, rational capacity, unbound by our feelings, emotions, biological inclinations, etc.. is another one of those commonly peddled false myths. The alternative to such a view might be cynical, but it’s far more likely to be the case than the ghost in the machine.