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For me, the universe is the right place to start because it’s the incubator for everything else. Without the billions of years of cooking up elements and forming ecosystems, there would be no mind. So you need that big picture to know what a mind is. But, since those minds didn’t come to consciousness until all of that already happened, and weren’t formed with that in their memories, the minds tried to fit what they found into themselves. Survival doesn’t require an understanding of why things are the way they are, so mechanisms and adaptations were geared to over assuming agency and to rituals that passed on practices that just worked without needing to know why. Curiosity has its place, but repeating what worked before is safer. I don’t think this an assumption, I think there is data to support it.