Hood, Bruce - Supersense

Bartlett, Sir Frederick ref1

Báthory, Countess Erzsebet ref1

Beckham, David ref1

behaviour: conditioning mechanism ref1; irrational ref1; moral ref1; obsessive ref1, ref2; staring ref1, ref2 See also rituals

behaviourism ref1

beliefs ref1, ref2; afterlife ref1, ref2; ‘apparent mental causation’ ref1; children’s fantasy figures ref1, ref2; culture, spread by ref1, ref2; female bank worker example ref1; intuitive ref1; phobias ref1; sacred ref1, ref1, ref2; taboos ref1; unseen gaze ref1, ref2; vision, regarding ref1, ref2 See also religion

Bering, Jesse ref1

bestiality ref1

biology: children’s understanding of ref1; DNA ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; essence of life ref1; freaks ref1; genetic engineering ref1; mosaicism ref1, ref1 See also animals

Blackmore, Susan ref1

Blade Runner ref1

Blanc, Lori ref1

blankets, security ref1

Bloom, Paul ref1, ref2, ref3

Bouchard, Thomas ref1

Boyer, Pascal ref1

brain: Alzheimer’s disease ref1; amygdala ref1; DLPC ref1; children’s understanding of ref1; dopamine system ref1; environment and ref1; and facial recognition ref1; frontal lobe ref1, ref2; fusiform gyrus ref1, ref2; insula ref1; limbic system ref1; and mind ref1, ref2; natural reflexes of the ref1; neurotransmitters ref1; old age and ref1; and pattern-seeking ref1; pineal gland ref1; planning function ref1; rational and intuitive systems of thinking ref1; striatum ref1; visual cortex ref1; workings of ref1 See also mind design

Brandes, Bernd ref1

Bransgrove, Steve ref1, ref2

Breaking the Spell (Dennett) ref1

Brinkley, John R. ref1– ref2, ref3

Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard ref1

Brugger, Peter ref1, ref2

Burke, Pat ref1

Buzan, Deborah Skinner ref1

Byron, Lord ref1

cannibalism ref1

Capgras syndrome ref1

cardigans: Fred West’s ref1, ref2, ref3; Mr Rogers’ ref1

Carey, Susan ref1

‘A Case of the Haunted Scrotum’, (Harding) ref1– ref2

The Cat in the Hat (Seuss) ref1

cause and effect ref1

cave paintings, prehistoric ref1, ref2

caves: Lascaux ref1; Niaux ref2

Chanel No. 5 ref1

Channel 4 ref1

Chesteron, G. K. ref1

children ref1, ref2; and anthropomorphism ref1; ‘apparent mental causation’ ref1; attachment items ref1; beliefs, adoption of ref1; as blank slates ref1; creationism, appeal of ref1, ref2; copy machine experiments ref1; death, understanding of ref1, ref2, ref3; essentialist thinking of ref1; and evolutionary theory ref1; fantasy beliefs of ref1, ref2; gullibility of ref1; intuitive theories used by ref1; life force, understanding of ref1, ref2; mind design in ref1; and promiscuous teleology ref1; reasoning of ref1; security blankets ref1; unseen gaze ref1; and wishful thinking ref1 See also , babies; newborns

chimera ref1

Chomsky, Noam ref1, ref2

church attendance ref1

Clear, Rosie ref1

Clarke, Arthur C. ref1

conditioning mechanism ref1

confirmation bias ref1

connectedness ref1

contagion: moral ref1; supernatural ref1

contamination: and culture ref1; and disgust ref1; essentialism and ref1; exorcism and ref1; killer’s cardigan ref1; Macbeth effect and ref1; and obsessive behaviour ref1, ref2; ‘once in contact, always in contact’ principle ref1; psychological ref1, ref2; and organ transplants ref1; Rozin’s research on ref1; and sex ref1

copy machine ref1, ref2, ref3

Cotard’s syndrome ref1

creation myths ref1

creationism ref1

creativity, and psychotic mania ref1

culture: belief spread through ref1; disgust ref1; and sex ref1; supernatural ideas originating in ref1, ref2, ref3; supernaturalism ref1

cosmetics ref1

Cutty Sark ref1

Dalai Lama ref1

Damasio, Antonio and Hannah ref1, ref2

Darwin, Charles ref1, ref2

Dawkins, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

death ref1, ref2 See also afterlife

decision-making ref1, ref2, ref3

dementia ref1

Dennett, Dan ref1; comparing religion to parasites ref1; ‘intentional stance’ ref1; religious service, attendance by ref1; on ‘Supers’ vs ‘Brights’ ref1

Descartes Baby (Bloom) ref1

Descartes, René ref1

disgust ref1, ref2, ref3

DNA: life essence ref1; cellular memories, transplanted ref1; chimera ref1; genetic engineering ref1; SARS virus ref1

Doctrine of Signatures ref1

Dokic, Jelena ref1

dopamine ref1

Dracula ref1

dualism ref1, ref2, ref3

duplication ref1, ref1

Ebay soul sale ref1

egocentricism ref1, ref2

‘Elephant Man’ ref1

Emin, Tracy ref1

emotions: and brain ref1; decision-making ref1; disgust ref1; regarding duplication ref1; killer’s cardigan response ref1; Rozin’s research on evil ref1, ref2; security blankets ref1; and sex ref1; social triggers ref1

The End of Faith (Harris) ref1

epilepsy ref1

essence of life ref1, ref2, ref3

essences ref1

essentialism ref1; and cannibalism ref1; cellular memories ref1; children’s understanding of ref1; contamination and ref1; and contemporary art ref1; duplication ref1; genetic engineering ref1; of kings and saints ref1; psychological ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; sex ref1, ref2

Euclid ref1

Evans, Margaret ref1

‘evil eye’ ref1

evil objects: contamination response to: ref1; exorcism of ref2

evolutionary theory ref1, ref2, ref3

exorcism ref1

experiences, bizarre ref1

experiments: behavioural ref1; cause and effect ref1; cellular memory ref1; copy box machine ref1; dopamine ref1; duplication ref1– ref2; on emotions ref1; epilepsy ref1; falling cannonballs ref1; flatworms ref1; gambling ref1; genetic engineering ref1; Good Samaritan ref1; gravity error ref1, ref2; honesty ref1; intuition ref1; magic trick ref1, ref2; mice ref1; missing square ref1; Sam’s ‘quiggle’ ref1, ref2; Scopes monkey ref1, ref2; sexual attraction ref1; ‘shapka’ ref1

eye contact ref1

faces ref1, ref2

Faces in the Clouds (Guthrie) ref1

Fairchild, Lydia ref1

fascination ref1 See also unseen gaze

Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh ref1

Fludd, Robert ref1–ref2

The Fly ref1

Fore tribe ref1

forgery: art ref1; relics ref1

Francis of Assisi, St ref1

freaks ref1

free will ref1

Fregoli’s syndrome ref1

Freud, Sigmund ref1, ref2

Gaia theory ref1

galvanic skin response ref1

Gammons, Ian and Lynda ref1

gaze: communication through ref1; direct ref1; fascination ref1; unseen ref2, ref3

genes: genetic engineering ref1; and religious belief ref1

genetic engineering ref1

ghosts ref1

Gilbert and George ref1

Gilbert, Dan ref1

The God Delusion (Dawkins) ref1

God is Not Great (Hitchens) ref1

gonads ref1

‘Great Chain of Being’ ref1

Gregory, Richard ref1

groups ref1, ref2

guilt ref1

‘gut feelings’ ref1

Guthrie, Stewart ref1

Gyatzo, Tenzin ref1

Hahnemann, Samuel ref1

Haidt, Jonathan ref1

hallucinations ref1, ref2

Hamer, Dean ref1

Hanks, Tom ref1

Harding, J. R. ref1

Harris, Sam ref1

Henry vacuum cleaner ref1– ref2

hermaphrodites ref1

heuristics ref1, ref2

Hitchens, Christopher ref1

Hitchens, Peter ref1

HIV/AIDS ref1, ref2

Hoffman, Albert ref1

holism see life force

Holocaust, Jewish ref1

homeopathy ref1, ref2

honesty ref1

horror stories: Countess Báthory ref1; Dracula ref1