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Religion

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2. In Michael Shermers book The Believing Brain, this is exactly what belief is...

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 11:41 AM

Dec 2015

http://www.amazon.com/The-Believing-Brain-Conspiracies-How-Construct/dp/1250008808

An excellent book, describing how the human brain is a "belief engine", for that exact purpose: survival.

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I think, "belief" is a survival-technique rather than a means of revelation. [View all] DetlefK Dec 2015 OP

Something that is "all-encompassing, absolute and infallible"... trotsky Dec 2015 #3

If that is essentially true, why don't animals have religion? rug Dec 2015 #5