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The Relationship Between Superstition and Atheism
An article in Scientific American talks about the superstitious beliefs of people with spokesperson syndrome. These people tend to have a much lower rate of projection of agency than normal people, he says. Atheists who are not as purgers do think teleologically, and they do think about projecting agency,. But there's nothing in the atheist's brain that makes it less likely to think into the technological terms or so on.