tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post1253071541463012753..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: darwin's apple: the evolutionary biology of religionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-77239213927985911932013-09-24T22:10:54.406-05:002013-09-24T22:10:54.406-05:00I am curious of the author's ideas about emoti...I am curious of the author's ideas about emotion and consciousness. <br /><br /><br />He says in a summary statement: "Religion stimulates our emotions and suppresses consciousness; therefore religion is adaptive."<br /><br /><br />I am not so sure religion stimulates emotion or not, but I was thinking about the idea that stimulating emotions suppresses consciousness. Take for instance sports, for me on the basketball court, a little bit of controlled anger seemed to always up my play. We all see emotion being a good size component as how a team performs. Perhaps emotionally wanting something so bad will suppress the consciousness of your body feeling pain or tired, but at the same time there needs to be awareness as to what your opponent is doing and what your other team members are doing. <br /><br /><br />I just don't know if they are separate, it seems many times the emotion may rise out of being conscious of something you hadn't thought of before. I can't believe that the emotion from the stream of consciousness ends up suppressing the consciousness.kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-18825602306775865102013-09-24T10:24:24.915-05:002013-09-24T10:24:24.915-05:00I am totally ignorant about yoga.I am totally ignorant about yoga.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-85438389635383692102013-09-23T18:43:49.304-05:002013-09-23T18:43:49.304-05:00lol, of course you know that long before there was...lol, of course you know that long before there was any of this livestock management via collective security club, there was yoga. Have you ever examined the scope and depth of yoga and marveled that something so profound could be so ancient among these humans?<br /><br /><br />Reason I ask, one of the five fundamental forms of yoga, in fact, the one perhaps most popularly familiar to westerners is bhakti-yoga, or the yoga of religiosity. What an amazing thing that there could be an ancient science of religion and religiosity whose innermost teachings and workings remain mostly unknown to the west. <br /><br /><br />Much of what passes for "scientistic" explanation of religion is rooted in casual acquaintance with raja/jnana/bhakti/karma yoga. I ain't know what to tell you about lithe young horndogs and doggettes sweating and posing in hot rooms nowadays. That's.not.hatha yoga...., at all.CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-19462841224558999152013-09-23T17:12:18.354-05:002013-09-23T17:12:18.354-05:00Walker Percy talked a lot about this kind of thing...Walker Percy talked a lot about this kind of thing, trying to come at it without falling for one weakness of the piece cited here -- the "scientism" fallacy where we fall into thinking anything that seems explicable via science is somehow already subject to a scientific explanation. One piece that's online, <br /><br />http://www.udel.edu/anthro/ackerman/loss_creature.pdfTomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-7101484349858899402013-09-23T15:59:48.338-05:002013-09-23T15:59:48.338-05:00Accurate scientific theories, applied outside thei...Accurate scientific theories, applied outside their range of validity, become horseshit. If there is any sense at all underlying the idiocy and boredom unleashed by the creation/evolution debate, maybe that's part of it.Tomnoreply@blogger.com