内容简介
A surprising new take on why we believe in God—and how this belief ensured the survival of the human species. God is not merely an idea to be entertained or discarded based on the evidence. Nor is God a cultural invention, an existential Band-Aid, or an opiate of the masses. Instead, Jesse Bering argues, belief in God evolved in the human species as an "adaptive illusion." Drawing on groundbreaking research in cognitive science, The Belief Instinct unravels the evolutionary mystery of why we grapple for meaning, purpose, and destiny in our everyday lives. Bering argues that the strangely deep-rooted sense that some intentional agent created us as individuals, wants us to behave in particular ways, observes our otherwise private actions, and intends to meet us after we die would also have been felt by our ancestors, leading them to behave in ways that favored their reputations—and thus saved their genes. But in today's world, these psychological illusions have outlasted their evolutionary purpose, and Bering draws our attention to a whole new challenge: escaping them.
作者简介
Jesse Bering is an evolutionary psychologist; director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast; and one of the principal investigators of the Explaining Religion Project. He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Belief Instinct是2020年由W.W.Norton&Company出版,作者JesseBering。
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