@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0331, TITLE={Arts, Sciences, Religions and oversized human brain}, AUTHOR={Jean-Pierre Gasc, }, JOURNAL={Art and Science}, VOLUME={3}, NUMBER={Issue 1
}, YEAR={2019}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Arts-Sciences-Religions-and-oversized-human-brain}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0331}, ISSN={2515-8767}, ABSTRACT={One wonders about the universality of the individual religious fact that is socialized in the form of rituals and institutional religions. The cerebral hypertelism characteristic of the human being, consequence of bushy evolution of the great primates, is at the origin of both his success in real life made of struggles to overcome objective biological handi-caps, and a ‘vacuum work’ network neurons during sleep, producer of an imaginary life that escapes the will and erase the limit between living and dead persons. Conscious for this dual aspect and to maintain coherence, the human being appeals to the myths that he shares in his social life and that contribute to the cohesion of the communities. This leads to a ritualization that takes diverse forms of religions, often joined to drugs consuming. Artistic creation is a parallel path, an outflow for the over-sized brain, as is scientific intuition.}}