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11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 January 2008 06:35AM

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Comment author: razib 05 January 2008 10:12:17AM 8 points [-]

to be more evolutionarily precise, i'm saying that propensity to religion might be a correlated response of selection for other traits. e.g., agency detection and theory of mind. these are very nifty tools which we humans are pretty strongly hard-wired for. but i think there's a good deal of circumstantial evidence that they breed in us a tendency to imagine spooks all over the place.