Episode 235: Animated Objects
Very Bad Wizards
The Evolutionary Monkey Argument
i would have liked to have seen some sort of discussion about h kno, whether or not there are independent cultures who have come to believe in either ism or monotheism. Soya, you want to go to the evolutionary debunking arguments, because this is the kind of thing dave likes to do when he disenchants the world. But three paragraphs or whatever, he completely destroys the evolutionary monkey arguments. So what's happening is that for good evolutionary reasons, we have brains that see agency and see patterns in nature,. That we over extend these kind of agency and attribute it to things.
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