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Who is mind blind?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Nicholas Nicastro
Nicholas Nicastro*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY11456www.nicastrobooks.com
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Abstract:

The authors attempt to explain the ubiquity and persistence of human religion by invoking innate, domain-specific cognitive furniture, while dismissing the potential of other approaches, such as memetics, to produce “mindful” understandings of religion. This commentary challenges the explanatory adequacy of cognitive nativism, suggesting that memetics has as much claim to utility and “mindfulness” as innate mental modules do.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

– Matthew 7:3

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 745 - 746
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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