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Three possibilities come to mind:

Is there an evolutionary purpose?

Does it arise as a consequence of our mental activities, a sort of side effect of our thinking?

Is it given a priori (something we have to think in order to think at all)?

EDIT: Thanks for all the responses! Just one thing I saw come up a few times I'd like to address: a lot of people are asking 'Why assume this?' The answer is: it's purely rhetorical! That said, I'm happy with a well thought-out 'I dispute the premiss' answer.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Neither of those are pejoratives, they're just the words for your positions

https://www.askdifference.com/natural-vs-supernatural/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Everything you just wrote in your followup reply here continues to fit into those categories as far as i can tell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate - you credited me with debating in good faith, yet won't do the same.

You rather obviously knew that the way you attempted to frame my position was disparaging - if you hadn't, you wouldn't have felt the need to add that proviso to the end of your post. What you clearly attempted to do with that was to disparage the position, while asserting that you didn't mean it personally.

Ah well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I didn't do what you said. Did you read the links?