Homo religiosus and its brain: Reality, imagination, and the future of nature

Zygon 31 (3):441-455 (1996)
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“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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10.1111/j.1467-9744.1996.tb00036.x

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