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(8) Some people can predict future events, though only about thirty seconds in advance. (9) There is only one God! However, He h ...

or a sect recruiting converts on the basis of these ideas. But I cheated here, as you must have noticed. I listed familiar notio ...

religion and what is not. Here we have a difference between what we guesscouldbe in some exotic religion and what could not. How ...

is futile and the magnum opus never sees the light of day. It is not ter- ribly surprising either that The Golden Bough remained ...

But this flies in the face of the facts. Mystics the world over can recount their many encounters with divine beings. Also, in m ...

"archetypes" that would be common to all religion. On the whole, this exercise did not prove terribly successful. People thought ...

[58] [ZYGOON CHART] the ANIMAL template rather like an official form with boxes to fill out, the child can represent that all wa ...

You placed it in the ANIMAL section of the encyclopedia. This immediately "activated" the ANIMALtemplate, which transferred som ...

Some necessary jargon At this point I must introduce several terms that will be useful for the next steps of the argument: Infer ...

concrete ones such as CAT or TELEPHONE or ZYGOON. Ontolog- ical categories are special because they include all sorts of default ...

tool templates. Psychologist Tom Ward used simple experiments to illustrate this point, asking people to draw and describe imagi ...

[63] This process can be extended to all our examples, but it would be tedious to use a separate diagram for each of them. So le ...

(25) Possessed people [PERSON] + no control of own utterances (26) Virgin birth [PERSON] + special biological feature (27) Liste ...

(therefore without physiology) with a physiology, PLANTS (therefore inanimate) with animacy, and TOOLS (therefore without biolog ...

this transfer of biological properties, associated with animals, plants and persons, to what is otherwise identified as an inert ...

successful people who are not, in one way or another, suspected to have committed such witchcraft murders in order to steal the ...

ing a prince into a frog is all right because frogs are animate beings that go where they want, have goals and intentions, and s ...

Counterintuitive mentation To turn to a different domain, a very frequent type of counterintuitive concept is produced by assumi ...

the trees cannot record something that did not occur. They cannot record events before they happen. This may seem obvious becaus ...

all. It is time to reveal that—to my knowledge at least—one does not find a concept of people who disappear when they are really ...