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Memes with the Watson keyword “imaginary beings”

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Worldplay Relevance to Mature Creativity

First, worldplay nurtures the capacity for continued pretend play, especially thrthrough middle and late childhood, well after the intense exploration of make-believe/e in early childhood typically fades. Second, worldplay exercises a range of cognitive capacities involved in projecting alternate realities, including…

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A Paucity of Diversity in Supernatural Beings

In principle, there should be no limit to the diversity of supernatural beings that humans can imagine. However, as the anthropologist Pascal Boyer has argued, only a limited repertoire of such beings is exploited in human religions. Its members—ghosts, gods, ancestor spirits, dragons, and so on—have in common two…

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