Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind examines the long-recognized and striking similarities between features of mental disorders and features of religio

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Our inner voice is a powerful compass that helps us navigate the world. At its worst it can seem like a demoralising critic, hellbent on sabotaging our potentia

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A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural