Religion like language, social hierarchy, and knowledge assists humans in sedation of uncertainty and fostering cooperation as populations and divisions of labor and markets scale. It’s not necessarily compensating for weakness. Weakness is a slur. Instead compensating for differences in age, ability, personality, and knowledge in the face of kaleidic uncertainty.
Instead, in the five spectra from 1) empathizing in time to systematizing over time, 2) neuroticism to calm, 3) impulsivity to conscientiousness, and 4) dim to brilliant, 5) childhood to adult, the more we depend on the fist term and not on the second the higher demand for religion.
The principle functions of religion are:
a) suppression of neuroticism producing mindfulness, b) training standards of behavioral weights an measures reducing chances of conflict an increasing possibility of trust, and scaling cooperation across clans, tribes, nations c) Inculcating a group strategy implicitly increasing the capacity of both a and b.
Reply addressees: @AlhayekMaher
Source date (UTC): 2024-03-12 01:24:36 UTC
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