The God Brain
Brain Games
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/brain-games/episodes/the-god-brainFor thousands of years, humans have explored the possibility of a connection to some kind of Higher Power in the universe. In other words: God. Today, billions of people around the world believe in such a divine being. But how exactly does the believing brain work? Is belief in God something hardwired in our brains? Or is spirituality a more complex evolutionary adaptation that has both helped and harmed us as a species?
幾千年來,人類一直探索跟所謂「至高力量」聯繫的可能性。換句話說,即是神。今天世界各地幾十億人相信神的確存在。究竟信徒的大腦怎樣運作?信仰神是否大腦的天性?抑或「靈性」是複雜的進化適應過程,對人類既有益又有害?