• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    We laugh, but the concept of independent thought is a relatively new one in human history. Until just a few hundred years ago, humans generally attributed the thoughts in their own heads to the Gods. If you had a problem, and conceived a solution, God provided that solution, you didn’t think of it yourself.

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      3 hours ago

      That’s a very broad and sweeping claim. Do you have any evidence to back that up? Are you making that claim for all cultures?

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      3 hours ago

      I saw the same video, and used the premise recently as an ice breaker, but it’s still very much a theory here as others are saying.

      It’s worth exploring I suppose, but it seems unlikely.

      It’s just an interesting and provocative thought.

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      5 hours ago

      I mean, how is that fundamentally different from a deterministic universe? No one can disprove the thoughts in our heads come from a giant rube goldberg machine.