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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Main Author: Holmes, Rodney (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 1996
In: Zygon
Year: 1996, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 441-455
Further subjects:B Brain
B Homo Religiosus
B Imagination
B Evolution
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