Denis Dutton nicely defined the human mind as a computer model combined with natural selection, then sexual selection is added with its modules of gadgets and gizmos to impress the opposite sex, and its ability to be like a home-entertainment center (which helps explain the origin of the arts.) This defines the mind-machine that survived the Pleistocene with well-honed computational algorithms, which we still retain today.
I don't think these natural explanations need to desacralize religion, as many religions believe, when nature is seen as the material and supermaterial world evolving to Godhood. This brings nature and religion together, and can also bring science and religion together.
I add one vital thing to this definition of how and why the human mind developed: our Super Id or Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which activates life inwardly toward evolving to Godhood, even as evolution shapes life outwardly in selection. This gives a deeper picture of how and why the human mind developed---the mind and body developed for more reasons than merely for success in survival and reproduction, or for earth-centered creativity in the arts and sciences, or for only religious contemplation of the God Within.
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