Quote: (02-05-2018 01:50 AM)Paracelsus Wrote:
Quote: (02-05-2018 01:10 AM)Sherman Wrote:
Once man developed the brain circuitry for language, he had the ability to imagine and make things up. Art requires the ability to imagine something that doesn't exist, create a physical representation and imagine that it could be real. That is all you need for a religion. Likewise, by creating a symbol called "money" and collectively wishing it to be true, it becomes true and serves a useful purpose.
(1) Art doesn't require the ability to imagine something that doesn't exist. Quite the reverse: as your own cave paintings demonstrate, art only requires the ability to make a representation of something that already exists. That is what the cave paintings are: pictures of living things. No unicorns on the walls, no chimaeras, no hydra.
(2) By the way, that cave painting is from the Cave of El Castillo. It's said to have been created by Neanderthals, not homo sapiens.
(3) Money does not exist by creation of a symbol and collectively wishing it to be true. Money is a technology for the store and exchange of value. It rests on the existence of trust between the at least two individuals who agree to use it as such.
You need considerably more than this for a religion.
1. A figure drawn on a cave is imaginary and not real. It doesn't already exist. It is a series of lines drawn by someone. If a creature can draw a figure on a cave, that creature has the full ability to imagine and make up anything.
The lion-man is dated to about 35000 to 40000 years ago. A lion-man doesn't exist. But the human imagined it and made a figure. (see link below)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
2. The cave painting I presented is the cave hyena drawn by Cro-Magnon man.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:..._Hyena.png
3. A dollar bill is just a piece of paper. That's it. It is our imagination that makes it more than that. A monkey will not give you one of his bananas for a dollar bill. And a monkey won't worship another monkey on a cross or blow himself up for the promise of 72,000 bananas. To do that you have to be a smart human with language.
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