There is a crucial difference between representations of other people and representations of possible supernatural agents. All
standard social interaction, from a young age, is based on a principle of “imperfect access:” that is, the assumption that other people (and we ourselves)
only have partial access to the strategic information pertinent to a particular
situation.
By contrast, supernatural agents seem to be implicitly construed as
“perfect access” agents. A tacit assumption is that, given a situation x, and
given some information about it that would be strategic, the supernatural agent
has access to it
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