Another good bloggingheads with Robert Wright. This is an interesting quote:
"Natural selection did not design the brain to perceive ultimate reality or ultimate truths or even very large truths really...it designed the brain to get genes into the next generation and that involved focusing on eating, having sex, gaining social status....a fairly mundane set of tasks there is no reason to think ordinary consciousness is anything like an objective or profound view of reality in all its depths, and there is reason to think we are generally prevented from attaining any depth or true objectivity so even if any given mediation technique or drug or whatever does a strictly physical thing to your brain that doesn't mean it is moving your awareness closer to what the objective truth is."
So then can we expand our evolutionary capacity consciously? Can we promote spiritual virtues intentionally, even if they aren't absolutely necessary for survival? Isn't this what religion does. What about a religion that doesn't contain all the dogmatic baggage, is progressive in nature, and is employing a systematic process of community learning and action for the realization of universal unity and diversity? That religion is the Baha'i Faith.
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