God: Perversions And Brainstorms; A ...: Conceiving

Ultimately, "Conceiving God" is a cycle of building a mental model (the brainstorm) and then realizing its limitations (the perversion). It is a process of "un-knowing"—breaking the old images to find something deeper beneath the brainstorm.

The phrase "Conceiving God: Perversions and Brainstorms" suggests a provocative look at how the human mind constructs, distorts, and reimagines the divine. To explore this, we have to look at the intersection of psychology, neurobiology, and theology. The Architect in the Gray Matter Conceiving God: Perversions and Brainstorms; A ...

The ultimate tension lies in the fact that to "conceive" of something infinite using a finite brain is, by definition, a failed brainstorm. Every concept we create is a "perversion" because it is a reduction. As the philosopher Xenophanes famously noted, if horses had hands and could draw, they would draw their gods looking like horses. Ultimately, "Conceiving God" is a cycle of building