Human intraventricular temperature is higher than central core temperature, and there is also a temperature gradient within the brain, with the central parts being warmer than the surface. the purpose, and introduced through a plastic catheter used for monitoring of intracranial pressure, with simultaneous measurements of rectal and epidural temperature with commercially available thermocouples. Intraventricular temperature was monitored with a thermocouple specifically designed for. We therefore report the results of intracranial temperature monitoring in thirty neurosurgical patients. This book will become a classic for religious studies, and should be read by anthropologists, theologians, and scientists, as well as all those puzzled by the force of religion.Information regarding human brain temperature is still rather sparse, which is surprising giving the no longer recent findings that the mammalian brain is very sensitive to minor variations in temperature. That it is natural does not imply that it is true, for the mental tools were elaborated through natural and cultural selection to help humans survive, not to find truth. Belief is intuitively satisfying because it depends on mental tools possessed by all human beings. In a beautifully argued presentation, Justin Barrett brings together diverse material from cognitive psychology to show that belief in God is natural. Pascal Boyer, Washington University in St. This should provide a much-needed guide for students and scholars of religion as well as a roadmap for future developments in the field. Barrett marries exceptional conceptual rigour with an easy, accessible style.
It's the sort of book that shakes up the field all philosophers and psychologists of religion will have to take account of it.Ī brilliant and challenging presentation of the cognitive study of religion, by a psychologist who practically invented the field.
His theory is innovative, compelling, and provocative at many points, not least in its conclusion that theism, not atheism, is our natural condition.
Barrett's discussion challenges every explanation I know of, doing so on the basis of fascinating and innovative empirical studies, and acute philosophical analysis. For millennia, philosophers and others have offered explanations of religious belief.
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