HOMO RELIGIOSUS AND ITS BRAIN: REALITY, IMAGINATION, AND THE FUTURE OF NATURE |
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| Authors: | Rodney Holmes |
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| Institution: | A neurophysiologist, is Senior Lecturer in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, 1116 East Fifty-ninth Street, HM Box 25, Chicago, IL 60637. |
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| Abstract: | 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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| Keywords: | brain evolution Homo religiosus imagination |
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