Therefore an understanding of cause and effect would prevent unnecessary superstitious thinking. It is a safety net for the unknown. If we ever need to take a leap of faith, we believe the outcome will be favourable.
To use your analogy, when it rains and you forget the umbrella this is a case...
Making sense of all the external chaos we are surrounded by ensures a high entropy value.
As disorder decreases, peace and harmony prevails, the entropy value is decreased. The need for a God diminishes.
God is therefore not only love (which needs to be all inclusive) but understanding/wisdom...
I suppose to refine my idea, creation comes out of destruction, and all the data that is reduced to it's singularity in a black hole, is stored there. Information cannot be lost.
Blackholes can gravitate towards each other and once they merge, that is one big bang.
I'm just romanticizing about...
When the sun collapses in on itself and all the information from the system is stored on the event horizon of a black hole until it collides with another, with it's own information bank, to form new stars and galaxies, will the evolutionary cycle repeat itself? Or is it more likely we'll see...
Bees, ants can function in unison for a common goal, the community.
If that signal between each organism breaks down , those busy little bees might become a bit aimless.
The consequence of our individuation might be the inability to tap into our collective unconscious. To realise our...
It's funny you should talk about intelligence in such grandiose terms. Basically to quote the ancient Greeks, "We know nothing."
We don't know who we are, why we're here, what we're doing. We aren't even positive where we are.
So to sum up, you are describing different tools from a system...
But do pigeons believe in a higher authority is my question.
Is it the Great pigeon in the sky or are they exerting a form of mind control over their environment; believing that they have the power to alter outcomes.
Is God a pigeon?
BF Skinner. He observed pigeons behaviour. Found some interesting data.
We all do it. Cross fingers, throw salt in the devil's eye. It's weakness. Irrational fear basically.
When pigeons exhibit their own "magical thinking", repeat their own superstitious ritualistic movements before feeding (even though it has been delivered at the exact same time, in the same way, over and over again), hoping to affect an outcome, who are they petitioning with prayer?