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Did Evolution of Human Imagination 50,000 Years Ago Trigger Belief in God? | The Daily ... - 1 views

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Religions Human paradoxes anthropology mind & brain Atheism

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    French-British anthropologist, Maurice Bloch, of the London School of Economics believes that humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination. The development of imagination occurred at the time of the Upper Palaeolithic 'revolution' 40-50,000 years ago. Bloch challenges the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as has been argued by some anthropologists (Image is prehistoric rock painting from south of Spain).
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The Root of Thought: What Do Glial Cells Do? Nearly 90 percent of the brain is composed... - 0 views

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mind & brain Neuroscience Imagination Creativity science

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    Nearly 90 percent of the brain is composed of glial cells, not neurons. Andrew Koob argues that these overlooked cells just might be the source of the imagination
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The Creative Advantage: How Vivid Memories of the Past Help Predictions for the Future ... - 0 views

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  • "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards..." - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
  • Episodic memory is an autobiographical that encodes specific times, places, sensory details and context, in contrast to semantic or non-personal memory that encodes facts (like 3 + 2 = 5 or the definition of a shoe) that can deal with more abstract or representational information that now may only be distantly linked to prior experiences.
  • When researchers looked at the brain regions involved in looking at the past, they found many of the same regions activated in response to prompts to imagine events in the future.
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  • It was Suddendorf and Corballis who raised the idea that mental time travel into the past was closely linked to time travel into the future.
  • Any other significance to the brain areas found to be activated into future visualization experiments? Maybe - these are the same areas important for theory of mind or thinking about the perspectives of others, and spatial navigation tasks.
  • It's not hard to find examples of highly creative forward-thinking adults who seem to have had this prodigious memory pattern (Nikola Tesla, Isaac Asimov, Leonardo Da Vinci etc.) but amazingly we think we see some of these budding versions in our clinic because of our interest in highly gifted and twice exceptional (gifted with LD) learners. Vivid personal memory doesn't always translated into academic success in the early years of education - because it's usually impersonal or rote memory that's emphasized in school. Vivid visualizers can be easily distracted, lost in their daydreams, or more concerned with personal trivia (what Toby brought to school, the games on Sarah's DS, etc.) or personal experimentation (homemade catapults) than the steps for rounding decimals or regurgitating dates and names for a history test.
  • Amira . on 18 May 10
     
    "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards..." - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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