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I was saying something about ethics and the development of morals and such during very early times. Or I said I would say something about it. Yes. Anyway, this is subtopic with very little solid information behind it. Most of it is derived from incomplete archaeological findings and mucky anthropological speculation. Archaeology is cool stuff - the
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I've mentioned Radio Lab in one of my posts before, one of those science podcasts, but really well done. Often deals with neuro/brain/morality stuff.
Anyways. There was this neuroscientist on there talking about how one of the unique things about human thought compared to other animals is our ability to imagine things that don't exist. So sure a baboon can imagine things, but only things that he has seen before whereas the human can put things together and come up with things that don't exist. A canary with purple and red stripes for instance, or a god causing a landslide. Things like this can be countered by empiricism but the concept probably wasn't even around back then.
The need for explanation beyond one's self can be a survival mechanism. If you can understand more about how things work you can predict them and survive.
Religion can have other benefits as well. If nothing more it can provide a placebo effect.
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