Professor Michael Graziano has written a new book on the relationship
between neuroscience and religion. Entitled God, Soul, Mind, Brain: A
Neuroscientist's Reflections on the Spirit World, the book is written for a
general audience. Graziano, whose primary research area is neocortical
control of motor function, has broadened his scope considerably to ask
questions about the neural basis of belief in the unseen. Books on the science
of belief have often been written from an anthropological, genetic, or
evolutionary point of view. Graziano invokes neural mechanisms of the
social brain, i.e. the biological basis of belief systems and reading
of the motivations of others, to construct an explanation for where
religion comes from.
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