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The Atheist Experience 26.46 11-13-22 Forrest Valkai and Jim Barrows

The Atheist Experience

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The Psychology of Random Stimuli

In fishing societies, the societies that go further out from shore to fish tend to be have more ritual around doing that and attempting to catch fish because you have lower odds of catching fish. And I would suspect that while this is something we see in fishing societies that you would also see this in hunting societies and other societies as well. The more random the events, the more we're going to try and control them look at what we do and look at our current society everything we do is about controlling the weather around us.

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