I meant that there is no scientific evidence for the agency of the self, because any scientific analysis of the causal process of our existence, always comes up with a cause that is an effect of another cause. Science can't access the 'mind' or our free responsible self.

I think we believe in such a self because we experience ourselves. We think, decide, plan and act therefore it seems reasonable from our internal perspective to ascribe agency to ourselves despite the scientific evidence that we do is a result of prior material causes. But with God, religious people claim to have internal experiences of God, something other than themselves (by which I mean they are drawing a distinction between a mental event of themselves and another mental event which is of a non-material separate being), but to my knowledge, they never experience the thinking, planning, deciding and acting of the deity. Hence there is no internal evidence to ascribe a mysterious personal agency behind the universe as a whole comparable to our own experience of personal agency.

I remember a show describing the evolution of our knowledge of prions. There was a remote cannibalistic tribe that had a high incidence of CJD in the male population but not the female. Turns out that when they killed their enemies, the males got to eat the best part--the brains, whereas the females got stuck with the muscle tissue.
Never heard of Devo before.

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