Mind Your Heads

Abstract

AbstractSupernatural agent representations are mental concepts, whereas texts, uttered words, and so forth are extramental, public representations. They express mental representations. Public representations also trigger mental representations. Knowledge is called “shared” when ideas in individual minds can be seen as differing versions of each other. Traditions, cultures, and religions are abstractions based on the observed overlap in mental and public representations. They are not entities with an essence. “Religions” are abstractions based on the observed overlap in both mental and public representations, not classes with an essence.