You got it backwards. Faith never recommends randomization, it justifies it. Like trusting the tea leaves to predict the future.
randomness in physics is cheap, and nature uses randomization in many rock-paper-scissors games without requiring religion or even brains.
Yes, randomness in physics is cheap, but I have a hard time finding examples of, say, a uniform or exponential distribution in the behaviors of higher animals. Just because something is cheap at a lower levels (e.g. quantum processes), it does not mean that it is cheap at the higher levels. I welcome examples of higher-levels rock-paper-scissors type of behavior.
I guess my point got lost in the shuffle. It’s right there in the OP, though. The adaptation is looking to an external higher power for answers. Initially it would have been where to hunt, but eventually Goodharted into praying and so on.
You got it backwards. Faith never recommends randomization, it justifies it. Like trusting the tea leaves to predict the future.
Yes, randomness in physics is cheap, but I have a hard time finding examples of, say, a uniform or exponential distribution in the behaviors of higher animals. Just because something is cheap at a lower levels (e.g. quantum processes), it does not mean that it is cheap at the higher levels. I welcome examples of higher-levels rock-paper-scissors type of behavior.
Don’t know about other faiths, but Christianity is pretty strongly against divination in practice.
I guess my point got lost in the shuffle. It’s right there in the OP, though. The adaptation is looking to an external higher power for answers. Initially it would have been where to hunt, but eventually Goodharted into praying and so on.