Whenever we humans are confronted with important moments in our lives, like birth and death, when we want to cure an illness or if we want to understand the past or predict the future, we have developed three strands of thought: Magic, Religion and Science.
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This episode introduces the book by Oxford Professor Chris Gosden, who explains where Magical thinking comes from and why it is still very relevant today.
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0:00 A spooky story
1:23 Maybe science can not explain everything yet
3:01 A history of Magic by Oxford Professor Chris Gosden
4:52 What I learned from this book
5:01 Part 1: Three ways of thinking - Magic - Religion - Science
7:14 Part 2: The evolution of thinking - A triple helix
9:55 Part 3: The Fuzzy Boundaries between Magic, Religion and Science
11:58 Part 4: The moral advantage of Magical Thinking
12:48 The archeological research starting 40.000 Years ago
14:34 Other research to be find in the book
15:08 My final thoughts on this book
15:57 Back to the spooky story
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