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7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“I think you need some cultural support to make it into a God, as opposed to just some sort of strange stuff is happening that you can’t explain.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…At what age do you think children can “really believe in God”? With a student, Konika Banerjee, we wrote an article a while ago called “Would Tarzan Believe in God?” Will somebody who, without a cultural support, come to believe in God? We came to the conclusion that he’d end up being polytheistic, that he’d see gods everywhere. He’d see them as triggered by nature and everything. I think children early on believe in invisible agents causing things. They have that sort of bias. When it rises to the level where you coherently say, “Oh, that kid believes in God,” I think that probably is a bit later. I think you need some cultural support to make it into a God, as opposed to just some sort of strange stuff is happening that you can’t explain. Say, if you were to give it a number, how many years old?…
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