The connection to moral systems could be due to the fact that curing people of trapped priors or other narcissism-like self-defending pathologies is hard and punishing and you won’t do it for them unless you have a lot of love and faith in you.
I wonder if it also has something to do with certain kinds of information being locally nonexcludable goods, they have a cost to spread, but the value of the information is never obvious to a potential buyer until after the transfer has taken place. A person only pays their teacher back if the teacher can convey a sense of moral responsibility to do so.
Finally, harari’s definition of religion is just a system of ideas that brings order between people. This is usually a much more useful definition than definitions like “claims about the supernatural” or whatever. In this frame, many truths, “trade allows mutual benefit”, or [the english language] or [how to not be cripplingly insane] are religious in that it benefits all of us a little bit if more people have these ideas installed.
The connection to moral systems could be due to the fact that curing people of trapped priors or other narcissism-like self-defending pathologies is hard and punishing and you won’t do it for them unless you have a lot of love and faith in you.
I wonder if it also has something to do with certain kinds of information being locally nonexcludable goods, they have a cost to spread, but the value of the information is never obvious to a potential buyer until after the transfer has taken place. A person only pays their teacher back if the teacher can convey a sense of moral responsibility to do so.
Finally, harari’s definition of religion is just a system of ideas that brings order between people. This is usually a much more useful definition than definitions like “claims about the supernatural” or whatever. In this frame, many truths, “trade allows mutual benefit”, or [the english language] or [how to not be cripplingly insane] are religious in that it benefits all of us a little bit if more people have these ideas installed.