7 Analysing “scientific belief" and “religious belief” from the perspective of psychology (2)
7、从心理学角度分析
“科学信仰”与“宗教信仰"(二)
On Modern Concept
of Psychology
-「论心理学的现代概念」-
Those who are truly doing research in psychology need to have a good understanding of what is intuitive and what is imagined, because there is a relationship between the two. This is also why science is used to examine the many behaviours of religion, and why the concepts verified by scientists can be explained by religion.
In learning psychology, the talents of mankind can be traced back to the origins of animals and man, and this leads man to be spontaneously and naturally inclined to propose the process of evolution as a better way to explain the world. The evolutionary process of the animals, human beings, and the world is actually represented by dualism in psychology, the argument that minds are fundamentally different from brains. People have beliefs naturally. It is just that the mental process, the cognition of the brain at the spiritual level, uses energy from brain activity to resolve the problem of beliefs and desires.
Many people hold very different views about dualism in psychology. Dualism contends that the negative emotions created by the desires of animals and men have nothing to do with the brain because they are the transformative processes of the mind caused by external change. This is a shocking explanation. I would argue that, in terms of the physical and mental parts of mankind, the manifestation of spirit is a change of cognition from an inspirited body. This is what we refer to as minds and minded bodies in psychology. As the brain and spirit cannot be separated from the body, the consciousness and the mind must share a deep interconnection with the brain and neuroscience.
According to psychology, the concept of the person is holistic. You cannot abstractly take out a foundational part of the human and use it to fight against another part. From this principle, dualism is an unbalanced argument as it claims that belief and corporal desires should be separated. From here one can find that, between religion and science, a person is inherently an integrated whole with mental qualities and an inspirited body.
