1. Αποθετήριο Παραδοτέων Υποτρόφων Δράσεων ΕΣΠΑ Τριτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης 2017-2023
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Τύπος:	Ανακοίνωση σε συνέδριο
Τίτλος:	Ancient Greek divination: cognitive and cultural heuristics of predictive brain
Εναλλακτικός τίτλος:	Αρχαία Ελληνική μαντική: γνωσιακές και Πολιτισμικές ευρετικές του προβλεπτικού εγκεφάλου
Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Παναγιωτίδου, Ολυμπία[EN] Panagiotidou, Olympia
Ημερομηνία:	27/11/2018
Περίληψη:	We continuously collect information from our surroundings in order to conceive our current experiences, to make decisions and choices, and to perform our actions. Our inherent cognitive capacities enable us to process the collected information, to find or build connections and cause-effect relationships between our percepts, and to predict the outcomes of our actions and external events. When the perceived information are not enough to make predictions, we experience the ‘fear of the unknown’ and ‘intolerance of uncertainty’ that may be accompanied by different degrees of emotional (e.g., anxiety), cognitive (e.g., worry, disorganization) and behavioural reactions (e.g, inaction). We have developed various cognitive heuristics that we use in everyday decision making to dissolve uncertainty and the accompanied aversive emotions. However, our world – and especially our social world – is more complex than we can handle with the intrinsic capacities of our minds alone. Therefore, we develop cultural heuristics that provide valuable conceptual tools and enhance our cognitive capacities to deal with the unknowns and the perceived uncertainty. In this paper, I suggest that ancient Greek divination comprised such a cultural heuristic that used the ideas and concepts available in the wider cultural context of Greek antiquity and provided useful conceptual tools to enhance people’s desire for predictability and controllability of the perceived world. My argument is based on the findings of neurocognitive research on predictive brain and intends to show how our brain enculturation in different historical contexts may drive, update, and enhance our inherent cognitive abilities.
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
Τόπος δημοσίευσης:	Aarhus, Denmark
Σελίδες:	9
Θεματική κατηγορία:	[EL] Θρησκεία[EN] Religion
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:	Study of Religion; Cognitive Historiography; Ancient Greek Divination; Greek Antiquity
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	Ολυμπία Παναγιωτίδου
Όνομα εκδήλωσης:	Worlding the Brain 2018: Tools of Collective Prediction: Music, Art, Literature, Religion
Τοποθεσία εκδήλωσης:	Aarhus, Denmark
Ημ/νία έναρξης εκδήλωσης:	27/11/2018
Ημ/νία λήξης εκδήλωσης:	29/11/2018
Σημειώσεις:	Abstracts of the conference at :https://aias.au.dk/fileadmin/www.aias.au.dk/Conferences/Abstracts_Worlding_the_Brain_21Nov_2018.pdf This paper is part of my postodoctoral research which is conducted with a scholarship received from the National Scholarships Foundation (IKY) of Greece which is funded by the act “Support to Postdoc Researchers” from resources of the “Development of Human Resources, Education and Life-Long Learning” program with priority axes 6,8,9 and co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Greek State
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