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December 7 2011

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Humans are believing animals. Perhaps that’s even a way of defining our species: we are the high-functioning primates from planet Earth who have achieved consciousness and, with it, the ability to believe.

Since belief is a wide-ranging term, I mean here belief in the existence of transcending powers, of something beyond the ordinary dimension of everyday life, beyond what we perceive with our senses. I wonder, in fact, if belief is a necessary consequence of self-awareness.

Will other cosmic intelligences also believe?

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From Marcelo Gleiser’s 13.7 post “To Be Human Is To Believe” (via npr)

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    I’m not sure I agree with that. Don’t animals also believe and trust in one another and in humans too?
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