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Author(s): Czachesz, István
Title: The Emergence of Early Christian Religion: Toward a Naturalistic
Approach
Category: pre-print
Length: 22
Keywords: Christianity; dynamic systems; flocking; emergence; networks;
embodied cognition; recursiveness

Abstract: This article assesses some algorithmic models of social behavior for
understanding religiosity and look for ways of applying such models to the
emergence of early Christian religion. In dynamical systems, the behavior of the
whole is more than a sum of the behavior of the parts. In other words, the
system displays emergent qualities. In this article I propose ways to look at
religion—and specifically early Christianity—from this perspective.
In particular, I put forward the hypothesis that religious ideas emerge as a
necessary consequence of the sophisticated \"flocking\" rules of human
societies.

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