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No-Shopping-3980 t1_ix1dxo1 wrote

Humans are unfortunately ritualistic creatures even the anti-deists engage in ritual - humans are hard wired for it.
In my opinion one would need to separate themselves from the organic completely and leave the genetic baggage behind before freeing themselves from human concepts such as religion money and morality.

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Shelfrock77 t1_ix1lyr4 wrote

I wonder what aliens worship.

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No-Shopping-3980 t1_ix1piwk wrote

I cant speak for Aliens but other species on earth also engage in religious behavior. Religious behavior of developing organic evolution appears baked-in; is ritual something inherent to organisms developing on earth? This is why I say one would need to separate themselves from the organic to fully escape naturally occurring ethical and religious evolution.

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Shelfrock77 t1_ix2dqi1 wrote

When I make my own vr my sims planet, i’m going to brainwash my sims that I’m the son of god. Ofcourse you will get the skeptical atheist ones too tho.

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Silicon-Dreamer t1_ix21py8 wrote

I generally agree, though could you/anyone please explain the freeing from morality aspect? Even on this I agree a lot of examples within the realm of morality will likely fall to the wayside, though I would assume there would be other examples we would have no matter how advanced. Not blowing up planets?

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No-Shopping-3980 t1_ix24mur wrote

Morality does not exist outside of the conceptional and varies with each individual as its an objective indwelling experience; the question is why does developing life evolve religious behaviors such as faith and ritual? The next question being if our species transitions to synthetic or evolves past matter into the energetic; will this post-humanity life have the same need for ritual or faith? IMO the morality of the post-human is not something mortals can understand - we can only guess at what ethical principals will stand foundational post-singularity.

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quadrangle3136 t1_ix2qlil wrote

Religion has nothing to do with morality. morality exists in a vacuum.

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