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do we now? have any proof that what you call spirituality is not just misfiring neuronsonce again using the F word..
if a spiritual entity has no physical component we can never experience it, as everything we experience is physical even the so called spiritual is a electrochemical reaction to stimuli.
But there is evidence we do experience spirituality, we've been doing this for over 70k years.
btw where do you get the 70k number from?
Yes we do. Neurons don't seem to misfire in any other species for all of their existence, prompting them to behave irrationally for no apparent reason, so I can't accept this argument regarding humans. It defies what science has observed.
70k is a rough estimate of when we discover human civilizations practicing spiritual rituals and ceremonies. Some say 100k or more, others say 40k or so... I split the difference.
newpolitics is running around claiming Neanderthals were "religious" but that is not at all substantiated. I recently read an article about this, and there is some debate over findings which seem to indicate Neanderthal was practicing 'spiritual' rituals. However, it is not known whether this was something they perhaps 'learned' and copied from homosapiens, and adopted as their species was dying out, or whether the evidence even suggests spiritual belief at all. In any event, Neanderthals were not AS spiritually connected as homosapiens. At least, not as far as we've currently discovered.