we have enough cognitive processing to ponder what else there is to life and what exists, if anything, after death. From that one thought spins out a great deal of human history.
Very well said. My daughter is nine and she asks about the origins of it all. I tell her no-one really knows and some of the options that people have discovered for our beginnings. She's getting to the stage where she wants "proof" of everything. Surety - being sure - how comforting that state is to our minds. In some sense does knowledge equal a better chance of survival? After all, the unknown may kill you.
And mysteries, she likes to solve them. Is the solving of a mystery somehow akin to seeking assurance?
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