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Belief In Belief And What Makes Us Human
What makes us human has little to do with our brains and more to do with
our hips. ~4.5 million years ago our earliest relative,
Australopithecus, had to move out of the dying jungle and venture into
the savanna. The nomadic life might have benefited our chances for
survival, but it made our hips narrower due to excessive bipedal movement.
This change, along with the development of our brain, hindered child
birthing. It is hypothesized that it became increasingly more difficult
for heads to squeeze out of the birth canal. Humans started being born
prematurely. Most of us died. As a result, for about 100.000 years, the
human population stagnated at about 2000 individuals. We struggled up to
the late Stone Age. We needed to take good care of each other if we were
to survive.
The reason we believe in Gods or have the ability to talk about someone
else who is not present, is the byproduct of the same evolutionary
mash-up. Our brains are still under development after birth. Early
minds, carefully crafted around concepts outside of our control. A cry
is all we got. It is enough to serve and make us feel safe. Whether we
are hungry, sick or drowning in crap, the ever godly hand eventually
shows up.
This abstract hotline ability is ingrained in our physiology for a
very long time. For years after birth we are hopeless. The rest of
animals are pretty much on their own after a few weeks.
The abstract communication from early development carries on in our
childhood. We have tea parties with imaginary friends and expect Santa
to bring us presents. Later in adulthood, we imagine having
conversations with our friends without them being present. We program
our day and fantasize about our vacations. We try to explain causality
in everything around us. We believe we are the center of the universe
even if we are clearly not.
This is how and why we dream. This is also why we understand our own
death in the projected future. Evolution crafted us to believe, to
imagine and to explore. Belief in belief, or what we know as “hope”, is
what eventually makes us human.
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