“God is an imaginary friend”

A friend is a survival asset.* An imaginary friend is an imaginary (to wit, virtual) survival asset, in other words, a placebo.

‘Imaginary’ happens as ‘as if’ (hence as a virtual reality) in one’s Bio-Nav, i.e. in one’s Biological Navigation System (i.e. brain) operating as a virtual reality simulator.

The purpose of creating an imaginary (or virtual) friend (i.e. an anthropomorphic placebo) is to increase one’s actual survival capacity by supporting it with a potential, hence ‘as if’, survival asset (like a belief, i.e. a proposition) that increases survival capacity (or resilience).

This is possible because the Bio-Nav, operating purely as a virtual data processing device, treats all data (to wit, neural impacts) as equal.

So it is that the Bio-Nav signals both actual and virtual (or imaginary) ‘win’ (i.e. asset acquisition) with happiness.

Therefore the smart individual will maintain and operate at a high (indeed optimum) survival capacity by deliberately generating ‘as if’ win moments (i.e. imagine winning or inventing a game (i.e. a phoney reality) at which to win) if and when he are she is generating ‘as is’ or ‘as if’ lose moments.

* Love serves to bind a survival asset.