Relistening to The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience series of lectures. It's fascinating but I question one assumption.
We're still dualists tho tending to bodies, making them 'comfortable' is prob most to do with struggling to accept they're not in there.
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Perhaps that's our inner drive, but that doesn't remove the idea we have significant historical evidence that humans believe in afterlife
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I'm not questioning that idea at all, just that burying people with stuff is necessarily evidence of it.
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I think they're taking the evidence from our history to create context & then drawing conclusions.
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And I don't think that's sound given the evidence that ppl who don't believe in an afterlife do the same thing.
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It is if they do it because they exist in a society where it has been done for millennia.
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I don't know if I'd be happy to just chuck the bodies of my loved ones away without care & tokens of who they are in another culture.
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One which never believed in an afterlife. Or if I'd still want to tend their bodies. And neither do you. Maybe time will tell. But not to us
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