Relistening to The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience series of lectures. It's fascinating but I question one assumption.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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We have evidence of a variety of cultures without formalized religion like ours that treated their dead as if they lived on after death.
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But what does this look like? Where's the separation between 'you'll need this in the afterlife' & 'This is symbolic of who you were.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, ME, Native North American cultures - independent but had some belief in ancestors still present/afterlife.
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I know. This is not something I mean to deny. I mean exactly what I said and nothing else.
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