"Techno thought that religions and spirituality belief systems were
carefully woven psychological constructs that offered individual and
group survival, reproduction, adaptation, and proliferation value to
their members. Religions and spiritual satisfied many human needs,
including ones for group bonding, and for a sense of belonging to
something much more powerful than your weak, sometimes lost self. That
viewpoint really wouldn't make much of a sermon, he thought.
It didn't matter if there was really a God or not, religions and
spiritual systems worked to help propagate genes and the associated
beliefs, and, after all, the brain was pre-wired for spiritual and
religious experience, showing how im****tant and strong the whole thing
was for humans. Religions may have been in the forefront for
stimulating the imaginative powers of the frontal cortex. Techo
couldn't help but wonder how a mature God Machine would answere the
same question."
From GodSeed, due to be out this summer by Scott Richard Campbell
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