ok so the main evolutionary hack of religions is that theyre unfalsifiable and exclusively authoritative right so you can imagine what happens in an environmental niche that suddenly goes unfilled
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Fair. It's a symbiosis between the meme-complex and the host species. But good religion is symbiosis, not parasitism. Of course there are parasitic cults, anything which says "have lots of sex but no children" is obviously a parasitic meme-complex.
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Circling around this point: * Brain uses 20% of human energy consumption. => Thinking is expensive and time consuming. * Cost of Information: Obtaining the information to reason about is really hard and not always possible. Shortcuts are adaptive.
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