Homo Religiosus and Its Brain: Reality, Imagination, and the Future of Nature
Abstract. “Daddy, is God real or is he a part of people's imagination?” The brain constructs reality by bottom-up, genetically programmed mechanisms. Nature selected the human holistic, symbolically thinking, aesthetic brain using a mechanism of brain-language coevolution. Our religious nature...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1996
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Année: 1996, Volume: 31, Numéro: 3, Pages: 441-455 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Brain
B Homo Religiosus B Évolution B Imagination |
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Résumé: | Abstract. “Daddy, is God real or is he a part of people's imagination?” The brain constructs reality by bottom-up, genetically programmed mechanisms. Nature selected the human holistic, symbolically thinking, aesthetic brain using a mechanism of brain-language coevolution. Our religious nature and moral capabilities are rooted in this brain, and in the real images it constructs. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1996.tb00036.x |