In The Human Story (Faber and Faber, 拢12.99) Robin Dunbar quotes Bob Marley鈥檚 Redemption Song 鈥� 鈥淓mancipate yourselves from mental slavery/None but ourselves can free our minds鈥︹�� 鈥� as he takes us in search of how we got to be the way we are.
I like, for example, his notion of religion: there is no 鈥済od spot鈥� in the brain, rather an 鈥渁bility to self-induce an endorphin surge鈥�, reflecting the pleasure we share in belongingness. He presents it as an enforcer of collective views, and the notion of deities as proof of the human capability for 鈥渇ourth-order intentionality鈥� (you think that I perceive that you believe that I think鈥�)
