ARC number: 29
(Technical Id number: 44)
| Author(s): | Engvild, Kjeld C. |
| Title: | Possible evolution of teleological bias, language acquisition, and seach for meaning from primitive agency detection |
| Category: | published article |
| Length (pages): | 7 |
| Keywords: | language perception; hyperactive agency perception device; HADD; teleology; evolution of religion; predator avoidance |
| | | Abstract: | The perception component of the language faculty involves the motivation to search for the intentions and meanings of words, and the intentions and meanings of systematic changes in words, that is the grammar rules. This may be the hyperactive agency detection device seen as a reason for religion. The ubiquity of religion, the science quest, and the inevitability of conspiracy theories may all be manifestations of the urge of young children to understand the intention and meaning of an unknown new word. |
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| | | Email: | kjeld.engvild @ sol.dk |
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| URL: | http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/5338 |
| Downloadable files: | ARC-29-EngLang15.pdf |
| | | Submitted: | 23/03/2015 10:10:27 (DD / MM / YYYY) | | Published: | 23/03/2015 21:39:32 (DD / MM / YYYY) |
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