Neuroscience and faith: The belief system as an interdisciplinary site meeting

Author: José Víctor Orón.
Date of publication: Pamplona, 19 May 2015.

José Víctor Orón is a Piarist priest, Civil Engineer and high school program in Theology. After completing in 2012 the Master's Degree in Neuroscience and Cognition, he joined the group "Mind-Brain" of ICS. She is also director of the pilot program UpToYou, focused on the teaching of the management emotional as emotional integration.

summaryThe seminar aims to offer contributions from neuroscience to the experience of faith and vice versa. One point of meeting for interdisciplinary dialogue is the belief system staff. In neuroscience it is assumed that emotions, as well as bodily reality and perceptions, are decisive elements for decision making, but it is not so much assumed that the world of beliefs plays a relevant role. The belief system is the abstract and generalized representation of the world, of personal relationships and of oneself. These are beliefs that have been arrived at through a process of sedimentation and reflection based on personal, emotional and relational experiences. These beliefs, by the process of abstraction, are no longer linked to concrete experiences but to a conceptualization of the world and of oneself; and they become present as another element in decision making.

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