Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky giving a lecture on the evolution of schizophrenia, and how schizotypal personality and its associated “metamagical thinking” may be adaptive, and a source or driver for religious belief in a community.
(Via boingboing.)
Historical Comments
I love this type of discussion. There does seem to be a touch of post-hoc assumptions, but assumptions that have a large volume of rational support compared to any alternative I can think of.