Supernatural beliefs that mildly violate intuitions spread better than others
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- Colin McGinn argues consciousness is a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel, as the hard problem of qualia cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.82)
- Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities (similarity 0.82)
- Sinn precedes meaning as the horizon of possibilities (similarity 0.81)
- Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths (similarity 0.81)
- Religious belief stems from both intuitive cognition and cultural transmission mechanisms. (similarity 0.81)
- Information content is defined by surprise or improbability, not repetition (similarity 0.81)
- Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.80)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.80)
- Belief in supernatural watchers depends on both intuitive cognition and cultural transmission (similarity 0.80)
- Common sense is the sedimented residue of past philosophies, continually transforming. (similarity 0.80)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.80)
- Costly displays distinguish sincere believers from fakers (similarity 0.79)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.79)
- If a truth depends on more truths than the knower can know, it is accidentally unknowable, not inherently so. (similarity 0.79)