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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
God's Idea - No Punishment
In hunter-gatherers all over the planet, the God or gods they make up have no interest in human activities. It's not until you get people living in large settlements and societies where people can interact anonymously that you start inventing what are called moralizing gods. Gods who are watching, gods who know who've been good for goodness sake. No punishment because as soon as you get to a range where you have a society where people can get away with stuff with anonymity, you've got to invent supernatural forces of constraint. And that's incredibly important in terms of making sense of like the values we have about why are we here on earth? We use sinful or not or beautiful or
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