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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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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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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @DoubleDumas
I'm not questioning that idea at all, just that burying people with stuff is necessarily evidence of it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
If that happened in isolation & was unique I'd agree with you, but assuming similarities in culture between H.s s & H.s n is a logical step.
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Replying to @DoubleDumas
I'm not sure how this relates to one very specific thing that I have said abt one practice not necessarily indicating one thing.
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'This isn't necessarily evidence of this' doesn't mean 'there isn't much other evidence of this.'
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