On the Origin of Beliefs

Dr Alan Jones PhD FRSA
7 min readMar 30, 2019

The human brain is a wonderfully complex organ and the ‘mind’ that emerges from the electro-chemical processes is truly remarkable.

The existence of mind need not presuppose any divine intervention or other dualist philosophy.

One way of thinking about things is that the brains primary function is to process sensory information; create physical links between different brain structures so as to…

Dr Alan Jones PhD FRSA

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