Cont'd: But Bloch argues that religion is only one expression of this exceptional ability to form bonds with non-existent or distant people or value-systems.
"Religious-like phenomena in general are an inseparable part of a key adaptation unique to modern humans, and this is the capacity to imagine other worlds, an adaptation that I argue is the very foundation of the sociality of modern human society," he said.
"Once we realise this omnipresence of the imaginary in the everyday, nothing special is left to explain concerning religion," he added.
Bloch has detailed his findings in the journal of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B .
