Determinism, Free Will, and A Thought Experiment

[Mudhammam]

Perhaps that also explains the longing of the religious to exist in a state not dependent on physical properties, such as the afterlife--no brain chemistry, no state of mind that depends on its matter-in-motion--and hence the law of causality that literally explains everything until we reach timeless chaos i.e. oblivion i.e. death. If a Universe dies, timeless chaos "goes on." Maybe...just maybe religion is a reverence for this oblivion, the uncontrollable fear of death, and a response to emotionally survive, a product of memetic natural selection. The more we understand reality, I think the less we will need this meme. And though at times a painfully slow process, it will gradually be replaced with something greater.