Monday, January 27, 2014

Belief in immortality hard-wired? Study examines development of children's 'prelife' reasoning

By examining children's ideas about "prelife," the time before conception, researchers found results which suggest that our bias toward immortality is a part of human intuition that naturally emerges early in life. And the part of us that is eternal, we believe, is not our skills or ability to reason, but rather our hopes, desires and emotions.

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