Ja, jeg vil tro at artiklen vil have en vis interesse:
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> Once we had evolved the necessary brain architecture, we could "do"
> religion, brain scans indicate.
>
> The research shows that, to interpret a god's intentions and feelings, we
> rely mainly on the same recently evolved brain regions that divine the
> feelings and intentions of other people.
>
> "We're interested to find where in the brain belief systems are
> represented, particularly those that appear uniquely human," says lead
> researcher, Jordan Grafman of the US National Institute of Neurological
> Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.
>
> The researchers found that such beliefs "light up" the areas of our brain
> which have evolved most recently, such as those involved in imagination,
> memory and "theory of mind" – the recognition that other people and living
> things can have their own thoughts and intentions.
>
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> Overall, the parts of the brain activated by the belief statements were
> those used for much more mundane, everyday interpretation of the world and
> the intentions of other people. Significantly, however, they also
> correspond with the parts of the brain that have evolved most recently,
> and which appear to which give humans more insight than other animals.
>
> "Our results are unique in demonstrating that specific components of
> religious belief are mediated by well-known brain networks, and support
> contemporary psychological theories that ground religious belief within
> evolutionary adaptive cognitive functions," say the researchers.
>
> "It's not surprising that religious beliefs engage mainly the
> theory-of-mind areas, as they are about virtual beings who are treated as
> having essentially human mental traits, just as characters in a novel or
> play are," comments Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist at the University of
> Oxford.
>
> "But it nicely reinforces my claim that it is the higher orders of
> intentionality that are crucial in the development of fully fledged
> religion as we know it," says Dunbar.
>
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