Believing Brain From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them As Truths

Name: Believing Brain From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them As Truths
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ISBN: 9780805091250

ISBN-10: 0805091254

ISBN-13: 9780805091250

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Shermer

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Bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguishedIn this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 5/24/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Michael Shermer is the director of the Skeptics Society and the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches science, technology, and evolutionary thought in the Cultural Studies Program at Occidental College.



Prologue: I Want to Believe



Journeys of Belief



Mr. D'Arpino's Dilemma



Dr. Collins's Conversion



A Skeptic's Journey



The Biology of Belief



Patternicity



Agenticity



The Believing Neuron



Belief in Things Unseen



Belief in the Afterlife



Belief in God



Belief in Aliens



Belief in Conspiracies



Belief in Things Seen



Policts of Belief



Confirmations of Belief



Gepgraphies of Belief



Cosmologies of Belief


Epilogue: The Truth Is Out There


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index