Freedom: The End Of The Human Condition -

Our pre-existing, selfless instincts (inherited from a cooperative primate past) clashed with our newly evolved conscious intellect, which needed to experiment and understand the world.

Griffith posits that the "human condition" is a psychological conflict that began roughly 2 million years ago when the fully conscious mind emerged. FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

Because the intellect could not explain its departures from instinct, it felt "criticised" by those instincts. This led to a defensive state of anger, egocentricity, and alienation —the root of all human conflict. FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

Defines "God" as the teleological, universal drive toward "Integrative Meaning"—the tendency for matter to organize into ever-larger, stable wholes. FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition