"Neuroscientists are also gaining an increasingly better understanding of how our brains analyze, interpret, and reconstruct place and space. We know the brain adds information to what it receives from the physical environment: in optical illusions, it supplies lines that the eyes don’t actually see, and it can form three-dimensional images where only two exist on paper (architects are particularly adept at this). The brain also brings memory to our environment. When you enter a particularly beautiful cathedral, your experience includes memories and emotions tied to the past experiences of spiritual places you’ve visited throughout your life. Your brain is drawing connections between place and memory, even if you don’t realize it."
In more Science-catching-up-with-spiritual-reality news, this article reveals a growing collusion between cutting edge architectural discourse and that of neurobiological research. Though the idea that the environment, the human brain and our subjective experience are interrelated could only come as a surprise to the most reductionist atheists and their dualistic alter egos, the literal religionists. (Both camps think human consciousness is somehow separated out from the general processes of the universe, the former thinking we have evolved to a point we can step outside of blind evolution and correct certain functions we think act counter to our best interests (the essential underpinning of Humanist thought), and the latter believe an overseeing God created us as independent souls, to wander over the earth as we please.)
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