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Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth [Muu formaat]

  • Formaat: Other book format, 256 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2006
  • Kirjastus: Scribner
  • ISBN-10: 0743274970
  • ISBN-13: 9780743274975
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  • Formaat: Other book format, 256 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2006
  • Kirjastus: Scribner
  • ISBN-10: 0743274970
  • ISBN-13: 9780743274975
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A scientific analysis of how the brain perceives and transforms reality into a wide range of personal, moral, creative, and spiritual beliefs draws on neurobiological and societal research to reveal how the mind is trained to receive belief systems and can be guarded against mental traps and prejudicial thinking. By the author of Why God Won't Go Away. 50,000 first printing.Draws on neurobiological and societal research to present a scientific analysis of how the brain perceives and transforms reality into a wide range of personal, moral, creative, and spiritual beliefs.
PART I HOW THE BRAIN MAKES OUR REALITY
The Power of Belief
3(13)
A Mountain of Misperceptions: Searching for Beliefs in a Haystack of Neurons
16(29)
Reality, Illusions, and the Aunt Who Cried Wolf: The Construction of Perceptual Beliefs
45(25)
Santa Claus, Lucky Numbers, and the Magician in Our Brain: The Biology of Conceptual Beliefs
70(33)
PART II CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND MORALITY
Parents, Peas, and ``Putty Tats'': The Development of Childhood Beliefs
103(29)
Ordinary Criminals Like You and Me: The Gap between Behavior and Moral Beliefs
132(35)
PART III SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND THE BRAIN
Nuns, Buddhists, and the Reality of Spiritual Beliefs
167(24)
Speaking in Tongues
191(24)
The Atheist Who Prayed to God
215(31)
Becoming a Better Believer
246(27)
Epilogue: Life, the Universe, and Our ``Ultimate'' Beliefs 273(8)
Endnotes 281(28)
Acknowledgments 309(2)
Index 311