any commonalties are the result of worlding in the world, in a framework of big history, in which the thickets of metaphysics are dense, grand and commodious, ready to support any world we should feel it good to espouse.
Convergence is a thing.
Evolution don’t care about the outcomes (art/religion/polity/morality) merely that we should, and thus make mistakes and learn.
The first realisation here moving forward, is that religion is a subset of something else… —and not a thing-in-itself that needs to be explained /selected for. This something else is the inchoate urge “to should”, “to world the self with a self in the world among others”. I realised this ten years ago, https://www.academia.edu/40978261/Why_we_should_an_introduction_by_memoir_into_the_implications_of_the_Egalitarian_Revolution_of_the_Paleolithic_or_Anyone_for_cake
and write on it at my substack https://whyweshould.substack.com/
any commonalties are the result of worlding in the world, in a framework of big history, in which the thickets of metaphysics are dense, grand and commodious, ready to support any world we should feel it good to espouse.
Convergence is a thing.
Evolution don’t care about the outcomes (art/religion/polity/morality) merely that we should, and thus make mistakes and learn.