"How do i explain the fact that, like, a voice was talking to me ofrom the void um?" "I would take, like, getting into suckedka, deman, exactly. Like slikee illustrations, like witches, like getting like a big demon cock," he says. 'It's not very difficult for me to to it's not like i'm walking around things'
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?
Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.
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Links:
- The Common Consent Argument for the Existence of Nature Spirits by Tiddy Smith
- Peoples, H. C., Duda, P., & Marlowe, F. W. (2016). Hunter-gatherers and the origins of religion. Human Nature, 27(3), 261-282.
- Ingold, T. (2006). Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), 9-20.