Religious feeling during the techno revolution

   Religious ideas are preceded by religious feelings, which are the real sources of religions - philosophical and theological constructions are only a secondary superstructure. Although in itself a religious feeling is not a kind of homogeneous spiritual state, and one can distinguish feelings of dependence, fear, hopelessness, infinity in it, nevertheless, one factor undoubtedly responsible for the preservation and the very revival of religious feelings is always present: the fear of death and its derivative - the thirst for immortality.
      Becoming a man, i.e. having received the ability to reflect, to realize one's own "I", a person necessarily comes to the realization of one's own mortality. But our brain, and this is obvious, to this day is not able to realize this idea adequately. Trying to imagine our own death, one cannot fail to note that at this sad event we are always present as living spectators. Each of us is unconsciously convinced of our own immortality - it is in this clash of knowledge about the inevitability of our own death with the inability to perceive this knowledge and continue to live normally that religious feelings are born.
     At the physiological level, this clash stems from the hierarchical struggle of different parts of the brain.
    The thought of personal mortality is an "achievement" of the so-called. "new" cerebral cortex, its own human superstructure. In the "old" brain, the instinct of self-preservation is tightly fixed. Due to the lack of proper hierarchical control in the “new” brain to this day, at the moment when it comes to the idea of its own mortality, the “old” brain turns off the so-called. brain screen.
    The need - in order to guide complex "human" activities - to increasingly use the "new" brain would inevitably lead to a dead end of "flickering thinking" if there was no way out. It turned out to be the formation of a certain area - let's call it a "buffer zone" - the presence of which avoids the flickering of the brain screen.
   This zone is not seen as a specific neurophysiological formation, but rather as an inclination, the ability to create certain connections. Having consolidated, this ability is realized in most people at the appropriate age. In other words, the human psyche acquired the ability at a certain age, in certain social conditions, to be completed with a kind of “buffer zone”, the task of which is to correct the picture of the real world in order to ensure personal mental survival.
   This zone is capable of accepting any ideas provided they meet two basic requirements: firstly, the “old” brain must be provided with the illusion of immortality, and, secondly, these ideas must be able to be interpreted by the “new” brain as probable.
   As a result, the "buffer zone" is filled with various ideas, giving a ghostly opportunity to somehow squeeze into the future individually. This is the continuation of oneself in posterity, in one's own and in other people's creations, etc., etc. - up to Herostratus acts and street signs.
   In practice, the "buffer zone" is most easily filled with religious feelings and, accordingly, with religious ideas.
   There are many reasons for this, in particular, a powerful ideological superstructure.
   In addition, not every person is able to achieve in their activities the height required to ensure illusory immortality, while religions are ready to promise personal immortality to everyone and everyone.
   Although with the strengthening of the hierarchical control of the "new" brain, the value of the "buffer zone" is steadily decreasing, but its intensity changes - sometimes increasing, sometimes weakening - depending on the jumps in the activity of the "new" or "old" brains.
   Personal and social cataclysms increase the activity of the "old" brain with the self-preservation instinct fixed in it. During these periods, with the activation of the "buffer zone", religious feelings intensify, families grow stronger, and the authority of non-monetary incentives grows. Calm, safe periods of individual and social life entail a weakening of family and kinship ties, creative downturns, and a decrease in the intensity of religious feelings.
    In the era of the scientific and technological revolution, the activity of the “new” brain is of necessity sharply increased, which again leads to the activation of the “buffer zone”, to the strengthening of religious feelings, to God-seeking. Moreover, if in the case of cataclysms these searches are directed towards canonized and stable ideas, then in the era of the scientific and technological revolution, due to the pre-eminent role of the “new” brain, God-seeking has the most sophisticated, exotic character.