(August 12, 2022 at 2:29 am)TrueNorth Wrote: Would it have been better to have had zero conceptual knowledge of reality?For an animal like us? Unlikely, I think. Our species success is attributed to it in no small part.
Quote:Personally, I do not believe the mystery of life will ever be knowable. I also believe that 'Religion' was an idea used by humans to assuage the aching longing of never being able to know the origins of their own existence. Or of any other things origin of existence.We're pretty solid on the origin of our existence nowadays. I don't think that was ever the primary function of religion, though every religion seems to have some ridiculous story about it. I like meso-american origin myths. We just walked up out of a hole in the ground. Talk about phoning it in, right? Where were we before the hole? Shh..eat your snacks and listen to the story or I'll beat ya.
Quote:Are we animals that just happened to learn to communicate with each other using conceptual language,because nature just happened to endow the human with a bigger brain in comparison to other animals, and is why we were able to spin off a sense of self and otherness, with what we know as our personal conceptual story, forming the idea we are the author of our own sense of identity?Alot less "just happening" and alot more selective pressure, but yeah, seems so.
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