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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017

      Relistening to The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience series of lectures. It's fascinating but I question one assumption.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
      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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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
      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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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      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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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
      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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    6. B_SharpC‏ @DoubleDumas 16 Jul 2017
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      I don't think we would do that if we didn't have a history of being dualists. What we do now is an extension of what we've done before.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
      Replying to @DoubleDumas

      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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    8. B_SharpC‏ @DoubleDumas 16 Jul 2017
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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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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
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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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    10. B_SharpC‏ @DoubleDumas 16 Jul 2017
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      I think they're taking the evidence from our history to create context & then drawing conclusions.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
      Replying to @DoubleDumas

      And I don't think that's sound given the evidence that ppl who don't believe in an afterlife do the same thing.

      6:18 AM - 16 Jul 2017
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        2. B_SharpC‏ @DoubleDumas 16 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          It is if they do it because they exist in a society where it has been done for millennia.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
          Replying to @DoubleDumas

          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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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 16 Jul 2017
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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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