in a future without dreams or psychedelics, we'd have trouble understanding the experience of the past, we'd rationalise away the experience, deny its existence, dismiss the supernatural. "it's all symbolic" we'd say, "these people did not *literally* meet God in their sleep"
@robertlasagna1 It is interesting, also, that in large iterated prisoner's dilemma programming tournaments, the winners are those who made cooperation alliances beforehand - they send a unique trust signal, then freely die for each other, maximising the gains of an ally who then goes on to win.