At dusk, an astrologer sits outside his shop talking with a customer. (Photographed by Steve McCurry while on assignment for, but not published in, “India: Fifty Years of Independence,” May 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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There's a review of the book "Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Religious Experience" at Human Nature Review. Via Anthro-L

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In this interesting paper (only for subscribers/universities) the 'neurophilosopher' Patricia Churchland is thinking about a different way of cognitive theory that sees the brain not as something identifying objects in the world by assigning them to one abstract model in the brain, but by embedding them into a larger neural model of the world. As I think, Cognitive Theorys play a huge role in cyberethnology. This article is not the big thing, but it's interesting to know, that there are also nature scientists with philosophic bachground thinking about this topic. You can read a hasty excerpt on my private german weblog.

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