宗教的解释
Religion Explained
Pascal Boyer · 初版 2001 年
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帕斯卡尔·博耶（Pascal Boyer）曾先后任职于普林斯顿大学、剑桥大学国王学院及里昂大学，现为密苏里州圣路易斯华盛顿大学人类学教授。人类的宗教实践与信仰虽然极为多样，但也绝非无限。形形色色的信仰为数代人类学家和宗教学者提供了研究素材；然而，探究宗教信仰共通之处的尝试却少得多——能够令人信服的更是凤毛麟角。追随诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）与史蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker）的探索步伐……
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上周我刚读完 Pascal Boyer 的《Religion Explained》——确实解释得很透彻——我推荐这本书。简而言之，书里提出的理论认为，宗教是大脑为了适应…而演化所带来的一种副产品。
Last week I just finished 'Religion Explained' by Pascal Boyer - and it is indeed quite good explanation - I recommend that book. In short the theory presented there is about religion as a kind of side effect of having brains trained for what was…
…这些都没什么坏处，当有人告诉他们郁金香狂热（举个例子）是非理性的时候，对大多数人来说反而相当有用。读完好几年后我依然常常回味的一本书是 Pascal Boyer 的《Religion Explained》（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_Explained）。虽然主题是宗教，但它更多是从人类学的角度去审视信仰、迷信和文化规范，…
…None of these things are bad, they are quite useful to the majority when someone tells them that tulip mania (for example) is irrational. A book that I keep thinking about years after I read it, is Religion Explained, by Pascal Boyer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_Explained). While the topic is religion, its more an examination of beliefs, superstition and cultural norms through the lens of anthropology,…
…唱反调。如果有人想打造一个真正和人类一样聪明的 AI，尝试在软件中复现 Pascal Boyer 在《Religion Explained》一书中所描述的机制，大概率是不会走偏的。http://www.Amazon.com/Religion-Explained-Evolutionary-Origin... 在我看来，Boyer 在很多方面都没能成功，但最起码的是他没有为框架问题（Frame Problem）给出解决方案。框架问题的阴影挥之不去…
…devil's advocate. If somebody wanted to produce a real AI, every bit as intelligent as a human, he probably wouldn't go wrong by trying to reproduce in software what Pascal Boyer describes in his book "Religion Explained". http://www.Amazon.com/Religion-Explained-Evolutionary-Origin... Boyer fails, in my mind, in many ways, but at the very least by not providing a solution to the Frame Problem. The Frame Problem looms…
…无法理解为什么某些艺术作品会引起我们的共鸣。计算民俗学（computational folkloristics）领域发现了一些非常有趣的规律（例如参考 http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu ）。Pascal Boyer 在《Religion Explained》中阐述了为什么某些神话能引起我们的共鸣，而另一些却不能。
…can't understand why some works of art resonate with us. The computational folkloristics field has found some very interesting patterns (see for instance http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu). In "Religion Explained" Pascal Boyer describes why certain myths resonate with us and others do not.