Superstitious atheists are AMAZING
@JLong as a species, we owe a lot to our tendency to pattern match, but it does seem to lead us down damaging dead ends like religion and superstitions quite a bit.
@stuartblair It sure does. Imo we're still in the beginning of our history. It takes a long time for those things to fade out culturally, and especially physically. It helps me to be a little more compassionate when i have to deal with the evangelicals. Until they go on the offensive, then it's war lol
@JLong I've taken a lot of encouragement from the book, "How Minds Change" by David McRaney. I think we're perhaps on the cusp of being able to recognize and account for our biases as part of our reasoning.
@stuartblair That looks interesting, thank you. Just added it to my list. I recently discovered neuroanthropology is a thing and now I'm seriously considering going back to school. It's fascinating imo
@stuartblair Its in the pre-frontal cortex, i cant recall exactly. The neurons fire faster in religious minds but its active in all of us. If i remember, its evolutionary purpose was to theorize unseen dangers.