Piaget´s Genetic Constructivism "Plus," Because Tribal Creation Myths Are Pretty God, uh, Good Philosophy

Antonio Calhau Tara Doe, Religion/tradition I have reasons to believe it is genetic, the way in which we interpret the existence of God, and how we interpret existence is genetic, and it falls in all the other laws of chemistry and physics. So... different people's different interpretations, and that can be an excuse for anything, love, war, peace, or law. Mark Rego Monteiro Antonio Calhau I might suggest understanding the genetics of human learning and adaptive culture. Thus, tool-making and symbolic language communication involved emotional and psychosocial interaction among people in clans or tribes, and in relation to their hunting and gathering. All human tribes discovered the basics of fine tool-making and clan living as they engaged in symbolic communication, as we see in all the people the United Nations brings together and University anthropology departments have studied. Their religious formulations normally identified a Creator-Creation scenario. In ancient Babylon, " In Enuma Elish, the babylonian god Marduk defeats the gods of old, inherited from neighboring cultures, including the divine couple making the world appear when they join." That´s already in agricultural settlement. More simply still from Africa, "In the beginning, all that existed were the water, land and sky, which was ruled by Olorun. Another god named Obatala went to Olorun to ask if he could create land for living things to exist. When he was granted permission, Olorun visited Orunmila, Olorun’s first son, to consult with him about his wish. In response, Orunmila told him that he must obtain a gold chain, a snail’s shell filled with sand, palm nuts, corn and a special egg that encompassed the essence of both the men and women orishas." And so, African tribespeople didn´t just create "mythic stories," they were philosophizing using concrete terms. The genetics of human learning mean that humans learn to use tools and symbolic language with other people and to describe and analyze the world. In psychology they identify cognition about objects, emotional affect in relations that influences awareness and emotional and social intelligence, and and spirituality, which combines those other skills in relation to the Universe´s Creator Entity function. Christian philosophy took Aristotle´s First Cause reasoning seriously when he hadn´t. Science has cleared up details of causes and effects, that relates to choices and consequences, that have created important distinctions for tool-use skills and emotional-social relating in Jesus´ legacy of loving integrity. Yet, that doesn´t negate key truths in tribal Creation myths that are justified in the Philosophy of Religion, aka metaphysics. Science has evidence suggesting that there was a Big Bang event. Science, the philosophy of knowledge tells us, is actually a form of philosophy. Just as Einstein imagined riding on a beam of light, we restore balance to our perspective by observing that scientific and empirical notions like "time" and "space," "matter-energy," are philosophical in nature. That means that as Einstein imagined riding on a beam of light and looked for the implications of that, our scientific philosophical arrival at the physical extreme beginning in the past at the Big Bang event means that "time" hadn´t begun. Things were "timeless," "spaceless," and "immaterial." How did anything happen under those conditions? We want to think it was a mechanism, like a watch or an engine. Yet, without "time," there is no "clockwork mechanism." Was it "random"? "Random" is a human egotistical perception in denial of unknown complexity. What else is there? Biology has perhaps followed the social sciences like psychology and can recognize "intention." From there, and our genetics of human learning, we can realize that as Jesus healed and referred to God and prayer, as in "seek first the Kingdom of Heaven," psychotherapists have identified healing in talk therapy since Freud and Jung. Meditation and prayer are practices that scientists have studied. It seems that shamans first noticed the benefits all the way to Jesus and to modern UN human rights like the Freedom of Religion, within human rights. Human rights that correspond to the standard of Jesus´ two loving Commandments, and the ability to experience love that evolved in some or many animals, especially mammals, and especially humans. As you point out, as physics and chemistry became biochemistry in biology with life, human intelligence can reflect what chimps have been found to do, murder neighboring chimps for the extra resources. That´s from biologist R Wrangham et al, and not common in mammals who aren´t say, insects like praying mantises. Piaget used an interesting term, "genetic constructivism." E D´Aquili et al used "Biogenetic structuralism." As for Systems Theory and great scholars like physicist Fritjof Capra, starting with physics, emergent properties needs to be taken into account to understand how new levels of operation take place in phenomena. For human knowledge, each new level of phenomena, from physics to chemistry to biology, for example, human knowledge needs to be empirical and conform to its new level of explanation. Thus, the Roman Empire worked at the level that included making Emperors gods, usually after they died starting with Julius Caesar. That´s a little confused, right there, but understandable from the materialistic point of view. Just as tribal cultures had the cognitive, emotional, and social skills to reason that there was an Act of Creation of what we call the physical Universe, we are able to recognize the unique context of Jesus Christ´s life, mission, and message, and his legacy of loving integrity in its emerging properties. It is superseding standard biological imperatives towards ignorance, greed, and hatred.