Aaron Davidson said
Well try the same logic out in this sentence
"Since i myself do not have brown eyes, I think it must be a conditioned
factor"
> Since myself and many others do not seem to feel this instinct, I think it
> must be more of a conditioned factor.
I think that God-believing is a heritable neural module present in the minds of the great majority of human brains.
A module which evolved around 150,000 years ago and which served the valuable purpose of enabling teleological reasoning (reasoning about purposes).
I think myself, with no evidence whatsoever, that about 3,000-5,000 years
ago, either a mutant variant entered the population or perhaps merely chance
selective breeding in a small tribe (of Ionic Greeks for instance) created
an emergenic phenotype which lacks this neural module.
Those of us on this list who believe in the kind of extropy
I think also that the majority of principles which I espouse follow very
directly from simply being incapable of explaining events in terms of
"spiritual" happenings, being constrained instead to operate solely in the
materialist reductionism space.
I think that we learn Occam's Razor. We learn the fragile culture of
science. But we are born either able or unable to use immaterial events as
explanations.
tim