A potential culture-level historical case of FIAT: AFAIK, Jewish monotheism emerged in response sometime in 5th century BCE in the aftermath (during?) the Babylonian captivity. Before that, Jews were henoteistic, with slight “preference” for JHWH. When their country was conquered “they reasoned” “we must have insulted the God with our cult of other gods (otherwise he wouldn’t allow Babylonians to enslave us), so let’s erase all explicit mentions of polytheism from the scriptures and ban the worship of non-JHWH gods”.
Also, I wonder how FIAT relates to uniquely human capacity and tendency/drive to overimitate others. Is overimitation tied to inference of latent reasons for behavior and re-application of that mode of thinking to one’s past self results in FIAT?
A potential culture-level historical case of FIAT: AFAIK, Jewish monotheism emerged in response sometime in 5th century BCE in the aftermath (during?) the Babylonian captivity. Before that, Jews were henoteistic, with slight “preference” for JHWH. When their country was conquered “they reasoned” “we must have insulted the God with our cult of other gods (otherwise he wouldn’t allow Babylonians to enslave us), so let’s erase all explicit mentions of polytheism from the scriptures and ban the worship of non-JHWH gods”.
Also, I wonder how FIAT relates to uniquely human capacity and tendency/drive to overimitate others. Is overimitation tied to inference of latent reasons for behavior and re-application of that mode of thinking to one’s past self results in FIAT?