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  • The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

    (By Michael Shermer)

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    Author Michael Shermer
    “Book Descriptions: 首先是信念,然後才是對信念的解釋。

    我們的大腦是信念引擎。從透過感官流入的感官數據,大腦會自然地尋找和發現模式,然後為這些模式賦予主體性、注入意義。

    一旦這些模式形成了信念,大腦便開始尋找支持這些信念的證據,如此加速鞏固信念的過程,這個過程周而復始地進入信念確認的正回饋循環;而我們的大腦用以鞏固信念的認知工具,數量非常眾多。

    本書以五個部分,說明我們何以相信奇怪的事物,更相信任何事物;書中從懷疑論角度切入,從政治、經濟、宗教領域,到陰謀論、超自然現象,以及人類為何相信不明飛行物、相信外星人綁架、相信超自然事物、相信讀心術等等,為什麼人們總相信自己是對的,別人都是錯的。

    透過對這些現象的分析,謝爾默期許,能為長期相信某個觀點或信仰的人帶來不同的思辨角度。也強調了我們之所以需要科學,就是因為科學是有史以來確定信念是否符合現實的最佳工具。”

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