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Rationally Speaking #238 - Razib Khan on "Stuff I've Been Wrong About"

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The Relationship Between Religion and Intuition

I'm pretty sure that most people, just from what I've done reading in the psychology, they have strong supernatural intuitions due to like agency detection and stuff like that. Like if you're walking through a cemetery, you're creeped out because you think someone might be there. So yeah, it is genetic. It is heritable. There's some variation within the population. There's a disposition. But I mean, you can obviously convince people out of these views, it's just some intuitions are stronger and more culturally embedded than others.

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