Broad Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis
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Broad Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis
The Broad Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis is a hypothesis that suggests that the Moral High Gods, ancestral spirits, and inanimate processes like karma that exist within certain Existential Narratives function to increase cooperation by monitoring and enforcing certain cooperation . [1]
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Traditionally it is thought that the idea of punishment is part an Existential Narrative folks tell themselves to facilitate cooperation via the threat of sometimes horrific punishment; however, research demonstrates thats MHG follow the development of advanced hierarchical societies. As Watts et. al. say, beliefs like these "follow rather than drive political complexity."[2]. This suggests the rather obvious, that MHG's are used to under pin political and economic hierarchies and authority.
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- ↑ Watts, Joseph, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, Thomas E. Currie, Joseph Bulbulia, and Russell D. Gray. “Broad Supernatural Punishment but Not Moralizing High Gods Precede the Evolution of Political Complexity in Austronesia.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1804 (April 7, 2015): 20142556. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2556.
- ↑ Watts, Joseph, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, Thomas E. Currie, Joseph Bulbulia, and Russell D. Gray. “Broad Supernatural Punishment but Not Moralizing High Gods Precede the Evolution of Political Complexity in Austronesia.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1804 (April 7, 2015): 20142556. p. 5 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2556.