The Human Brain is a “Knowledge Engine”?
by British scientist Lewis Wolpert believes that religiosity "incorrigible and deeply irrational" of humanity is as human and explicable as prehistoric ax and computer. It is a tool of the soul.
Both religion and belief in a supernatural being is a natural consequence of how people are connected together fintele: our brains have evolved to become “engines of faith.” And this is one reason for which we should accept our beliefs, especially religious ones, to be fair, says Britain.
Being an avid analyst of the subject, Wolpert sees no reason why that should change the orientation of reductionist, materialist and atheist over the universe, convinced that faith demolition engine effectively explain how people are different from other animals. “I consider religious beliefs as being at least partly genetically determined. How else could explain the fact that there was never discovered a society without any form of religion? “Said Wolpert.
The researcher also believes that what makes us human is the technology, how our ancestors discovered how to manipulate the natural world. So is the creation of tools that made us human, the first hominids understood cause and effect and have come to believe in unseen gods and spirits that causes some of the great mysteries of life, including death.
But how does all this lead us to God? “It was the mental concept of cause and effect that which was critical in this matter. Once you have this concept that allows you to manufacture complex tools, then you want to understand the deeper things – why we get sick, what happens when we die, why the sun rises and sets. And they must have a cause. And this is the origin of faith, “says Lewis Wolpert.
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