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Jiang frames ancient religion as a form of science within its own belief system and says future people may someday interpret modern physics as religion too.
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Belief Systems
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Jiang argues that ancient people were as intelligent, creative, and sophisticated as modern people; they simply operated within a different set of beliefs.
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"They knew a lot about the way the stars worked, okay? So, basically for them, this is science, okay? Today we say this is..."
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"Another place. Another world. And therefore, having the skull around allows you to communicate with that world and learn its secrets. You understand? And..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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