Nature, Naskar & Neurons, Abhijit Naskar sheds light on the idea of God and elucidates its rise in the human mind as an evolutionary mechanism.

Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-God-Biopsy-Cognitive-Reality/dp/152296942X/



Transcript:

Mankind has slaughtered more innocent lives throughout the ages in the name of God than for any other reason. So what is this God thing? Is it a delusion, a parasite, a poison or a placebo. I am Abhijit Naskar, and you are watching Nature, Naskar & Neurons. And in this video I'll tell you 5 things that you need to know about God.



Number 1

There are at least two Gods that you need to be aware of, not one. First and foremost is the God or the pack of Gods that humanity has been worshipping till now - the Abrahamic God, the Gods of the Vedas, and all those mythological divine figures. And the second God is the one that is the actual driving force behind the universe, of which we know nothing - if there is any such force that is.



Number 2

The idea of a supreme divine entity evolved in the human mind to serve the purpose of self-preservation. Which means this notion was born through the process of natural selection as an important evolutionary element of the human mind. This God is the first God that I mentioned earlier.



Number 3

The God or Gods that humans from all over the world have worshipped through ages are all human creations - these gods are all created in the human mind either through imagination or in a transcendental state. In short, the God or Gods mentioned in the scriptures do not exist in reality. Belief keeps those gods alive in the human mind. Once the humans stop believing in them, they would cease to exist.



Number 4

The God of the human society acts basically as an effective placebo for the masses, which in reality does indeed have both physiological and psychological benefits in the individual. And that is the reason that this very notion has survived till now. However, what I must mention here is that belief in a personal God may be okay, but fighting with the fellow humans to prove the exclusive authority of that God over all others, is not only not okay, but basically an act of an animal, not human.



Number 5

Now comes the actual kind of God - the God that we scientists, or basically any rational being could consider to be the actual driving force behind the universe. Despite all our technological achievements, we humans are simply still too dumb a species to fathom such a grand force in action behind the enigma of the universe. Which means the real God, if there is any such thing, would be something beyond our puny human understanding at this point of time. May be in distant future, some day our distant progeny will be mentally capable enough to understand this grand force, but right now we are at infancy as a species.



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