nemesis_juggernaut writes:
We would expect them to be widely divergent and perhaps would be perplexed to see if different cultures, separated by oceans and mountain ranges, agreed on great and important points, especially on points which could not be clearly arrived at by reason.
Except ideas evolve, too.
So, what we have are similar starting points (the root of our ideas is the world around us), and a similar environment -- human psyches. Also, we don't need the evolution of the psychological parasites to be in parallel for each individual. Ideas can move between minds using language.