This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 4th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.
Theme: The ideas encoded in religion and mythology emerged from the bottom up, not the top down. This means they were not planned or abstractly conceptualized, in their initial forms. Instead, religious ideas emerged from a platform whose structure was defined by collective behavior. Ordered collective behavior has a game-like structure, and some games are better than others. Sophisticated religious narratives outline the best possible games.This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 4th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is base...all »This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 4th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.
Theme: The ideas encoded in religion and mythology emerged from the bottom up, not the top down. This means they were not planned or abstractly conceptualized, in their initial forms. Instead, religious ideas emerged from a platform whose structure was defined by collective behavior. Ordered collective behavior has a game-like structure, and some games are better than others. Sophisticated religious narratives outline the best possible games.«
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