A recent paper to be published soon in Human Nature implicitly supports Jordan Peterson's thesis from his first book Maps of Meaning.
You may find this interesting. On religious practices as multiscale active inference: Certainties emerging from recurrent interactions within and across individuals and groups
July 2022 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361691550_On_religious_practices_as_multiscale_active_inference_Certainties_emerging_from_recurrent_interactions_within_and_across_individuals_and_groups
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The “selfish” in Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene lends strong credence to this idea, even for atheists.
You may find this interesting. On religious practices as multiscale active inference: Certainties emerging from recurrent interactions within and across individuals and groups
July 2022 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361691550_On_religious_practices_as_multiscale_active_inference_Certainties_emerging_from_recurrent_interactions_within_and_across_individuals_and_groups
Would love to chat to you about generative models and behaviour
The “selfish” in Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene lends strong credence to this idea, even for atheists.