Thread:User talk:Armondikov/"You'll grow out of your rebellious phase."/reply (15)

I don't know that I agree. I've seen several quality peer review studies trying to understand the seeds of some of our "ideas" about things like "gods" and "sprits" and "ghosts", and more and more they show that these are part of our human brains. As humans, especially children we: one - give meaning to everything, including natural, random events; two - give moral value to those things, and teh "people" we see doing those things (the wind helped me get my kite back... but on a two year old level) and three - associate power of "mom and dad" (ie., super natural power, if you are thinking like a 2 year old) to those "events". The rocks, dolls, blocks of wood, etc., become "beings" that can help or harm us. The kids in the studies I've read range from 6 months to 3 years, depending on the focus of the study.

This is part of who we are.