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Fwiw, that's the mechanical basis of many rituals and sacraments that one day will be understood by science. For example, the eucharist ceremony is a carefully designed sequence to produce a certain uplifting current, vaguely perceptible in some cases, but not measurable today.

For example, we know that there are these weird neutrinos, but if we were to find a method of constraining them within a pipe, the produced current might have unusual properties. Pretty much any foo flowing within another type of foo will create a new type of current.




Or, your 'certain uplifting current' is just activation of a neural pleasure center, that humans are pre-disposed to as the result of 10's of generations of 'selection' where individuals who didn't enjoy the ritual in some way or another were not as successful at passing on their genes, either by lack of bonding with others in the ritual group, to down right exclusion from it.


>certain uplifting current' is just activation of a neural pleasure center

What is the difference between these two things from a purely physical point of view?


This sort of materialistic prejudice is common today. Science is about sticking to proven facts and using strict logic when deriving new facts, but refusing to even consider new ideas isn't science, it's lowly prejudice and adherence to groupthink.


Are you sure you (personally) know the difference between a sacrament and, say, a bicycle pump?




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