Relistening to The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience series of lectures. It's fascinating but I question one assumption.
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It's using the fact that Neanderthals buried their dead with trinkets & tools as evidence they believed they were going on somewhere.
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Whilst we do seem to be natural dualists & consistently resistent to the idea that we end, I'm not sure this is evidence of it.
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Most of the funerals I have attended have been funerals of ppl who didn't believe in an afterlife arranged by ppl who don't believe in one.
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They still bury/cremate them in best clothes with beloved & significant objects with them. I think its a ritual of valuing who they were.
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My grandad had his pipe & tobacco, his glasses & a coin he always carried & his well-worn deck of cards.
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It made us feel better to show our love, closeness & respect. If my husband dies before me, I'll probably bury him with his playstation. ;-)
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Good points to question. Apart from the trinkets themselves I wonder about other evidence showing the Neanderthals visual artistic culture.
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There can be much other evidence, yes. And it seems very likely they did coz we do this so consistently.
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