The Significance of Belief                    

However one believes is immaterial; that one believes in is the stuff of humanity. That one believes goes beyond the Cartesian principle. A sense of self could in lower forms exist──admittedly primitive. A dog conceivably has a strong awareness of itself, yet we do not ascribe thinking to a dog. On a human level, one believes because he has no choice. He cannot say I do not believe in myself anymore than Descartes could say I do not think therefore I am not. Without belief there is no humanity. Anthropologists rack their brains in trying to fathom along the time-continuum evidence of the genesis of humanity. Various human skulls uncovered signify nothing without related evidence of human activity, such as tools and artifacts of development. The related evidence is significant because it lends to the belief that without the impression of the mind upon an activity beyond that of peeling a banana human activity is non-existent. Of course, all animals engage in labor but it is instinctual, having no bearing on hierarchical labor dependent on progressive thinking in communion with the underlying mathematical-mechanistic intelligence shaping the universe. [cont'd]