CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Enculturation, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizotypy
25 Jun 2020
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Religion: pascal boyer"s counterontology theory, we have subsystems for understanding different things in the world: contagion, persons, living things, tools, physical objects. These form ontologies. : we find fascinating things that belong to one category but have one (or close to one) thing from another, a ghost or god is a person with no body. If something is learned, we predict that it gets stronger during enculturation. (how we obsorb the sulture around us: this does not get stronger over time, the opposite happens with attributing mental states to the dead. Kindergarteners were more likely to do this than older children: this suggests that there is an innate component. Are we natural dualists: dualist someone who thinks that the physical body and mind is separate, we"re born as dualists, the old brain and the new, the old brain is intuitive. Imagine how a monkey"s reputation could be hurt in a pack.
