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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

CHAPTER

The Science of Love and Betrayal

We find the virtual world of the internet less satisfactory than the face-to-face world. It's much harder work online than if we were sitting in a pug somewhere on at a cafe or whatever. You certainly can't sing and dance so easily and you can't eat and drink with the person all these things that trigger the indoor fern system. On top of that there's something about the raw emotional closeness created by being able to physically touch somebody else when you have of any kind of meaningful relationship nothing yeah not  with complete strangers we don't do that kind of thing even but i think celebrity culture is simply that gone mad.

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