Tag: Anthropology
Oliver Sacks on Humans and Myth-Making
Oliver Sacks July 8, 2009.
Video: Big Think
Humans naturally create stories and narratives, says British author and neurologist Oliver Sacks. As a “non-militant atheist”, Sacks believes that the human mind is s story-generating machine, but that this story generating propensity needn’t be focused on Theistic themes and that much can be gained by using this faculty in the context of nature.







