RELIGST 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Computational Model, Cognitive Revolution, Agent Detection
3 Oct 2020
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Attempt to identify and examine the cognitive structures (or mental tools ) of thought and action. What is cognitive science: general characteristics of cognitive science: Intuitive ideas shared by groups of individuals: by-products/adaptations of evolution, pre-reflective, pan-cultural and cultural, multi-disciplinary: cognitive science hexagram. Identifying the mental tools that lead to religious belief and action. Mental tools in the cognitive science of religion ( scaffolds , schemas : hyperactive agency detection device (hadd, minimally counter-intuitive (mci) ideas, theory of mind (tom, conceptual metaphors. Tends to generalize religion to belief in supernatural agents : can overlook social-cultural-historical-political factors. Can be biased toward religious and non-religious agendas: paul bloom: [p]lainly, no finding from the cognitive science of religion can refute either the existence of god or a theistic account of the origins of religious belief. " Can reduce religious experiences to internal mental states: overly skewed to psychological approaches .
