Memories Are Like Wiki?

The Weekly SPI Fellows Update

by Deanna Cantrell

Brain Graphic How are memories like a Wikipedia page? It is said that our minds can play tricks on us, but can our brains create false memories so vivid that we cannot distinguish them from truth? SPI Fellow Elizabeth Loftus gives a lecture on how memories can become narratives. View this thought-provoking presentation here.

Are common business practices that focus on short-term earnings reminiscent of the beliefs which many theologists hold in high regard? Read what can happen when business takes a humanistic approach in SPI Fellow David Sloan Wilson’s essay,

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Is there a new, global religion in the making? How has religion changed in the twenty-first century? Thanks to SPI Fellow Mark Juergensmeyer, his coauthors and a five year Luce Foundation project we have new insight to these and more burning questions. Read more about his new book, God in the Tumult of the Global Square, available now.

Many secularists face some sort of discrimination during the course of living openly about our worldview, but imagine being exiled from your homeland for being true to yourself. SPI Fellow Taslima Nasreen speaks about her exile from her home country of Bangladesh and about the current political landscape in this stirring blog, Religion is the Biggest Bane for Any Democracy.

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