The Mind and Spirit project found that the way a social world invites its members to experience thought appears to have consequences. When the boundary between inner awareness and outer world is culturally represented as porous, so that thoughts can be construed to move in and out of the mind as if they had agency and power, people are more likely to describe their experience of invisible others as if those others could be experienced with the senses. They are more likely to say that a god or spirit spoke in a way they could hear with their ears, or that they sensed a presence in the room.

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思考思考：心灵的孔隙和众神的存在

“心灵与精神”项目发现，社交世界邀请其成员体验思想的方式似乎具有后果。当内在意识与外在世界之间的界限在文化上被表示为多孔的，从而使思想可以被解释为进入或离开思想时，就好像它们具有代理和力量一样，人们更有可能将自己看不见的他人的经历描述为好像那些其他人可能会感觉到。他们更有可能说神或灵以他们可以用耳朵听到的方式说话，或者他们感觉到房间里的存在。