Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, Charles Bell House, 67 Riding House Street, London WC1 7EY, UK.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2011 Jul;48(3):318-35. doi: 10.1177/1363461511402723.
In this article we propose that schizophrenia and religious cognition engage cognate mental modules in the over-attribution of agency and the overextension of theory of mind. We argue similarities and differences between assumptions of ultrahuman agents with omniscient minds and certain ''pathological'' forms of thinking in schizophrenia: thought insertion, withdrawal and broadcasting, and delusions of reference. In everyday religious cognition agency detection and theory of mind modules function ''normally,'' whereas in schizophrenia both modules are impaired. It is suggested that religion and schizophrenia have perhaps had a related evolutionary trajectory.
在本文中，我们提出精神分裂症和宗教认知在过度归因于意志和过度扩展心理理论方面使用了同源的心理模块。我们论证了超人类意志和全知心灵的假设与精神分裂症中某些“病理性”思维形式之间的相似性和差异性：思维插入、思维抽离和思维广播，以及关系妄想。在日常宗教认知中，意志检测和心理理论模块正常运作，而在精神分裂症中，这两个模块都受到损害。有人认为，宗教和精神分裂症可能具有相关的进化轨迹。
