Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Evolution, religion, schizophrenia, and the schizotypal personality

Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky giving a lecture on the evolution of schizophrenia, and how schizotypal personality and its associated "metamagical thinking" may be adaptive, and a source or driver for religious belief in a community.



(Via boingboing.)

Posted by Lippard at 6/09/2009 08:08:00 AM

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1 comment:

Brad said...

I love this type of discussion. There does seem to be a touch of post-hoc assumptions, but assumptions that have a large volume of rational support compared to any alternative I can think of.

June 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM

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