Ebook: The believing brain: from ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies--how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths
Author: Shermer Michael
- Tags: Belief and doubt, Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive styles, Glaube, Knowledge Theory of, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Religionspsychologie, Theory of knowledge, Electronic books
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Times Books
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
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Mr. D'Arpino's dilemma -- Dr. Collins's conversion -- A skeptic's journey -- Patternicity -- Agenticity -- The believing neuron -- Belief in the afterlife -- Belief in god -- Belief in aliens -- Belief in conspiracies -- Politics of belief -- Confirmations of belief -- Geographies of belief -- Cosmologies of belief -- Epilogue: the truth is out there.;Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.
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