In this paper, I offer a cognitive analysis of the invocations of the Muse in earliest Greek epic poetry that is based on recent advances in cognitive science in general and the cognitive science of religion in particular. I argue that the Muse-concept most likely originated in a feeling of dependence on an external source of information to provide the singer with the subject matter of their song. This source of information is conceptualised as an ontological type (or template) ‘person’ by means of the hyperactive agency detection, and the Muse’s full access to strategic information, along with other characteristics, establishes her as a minimally counter-intuitive concept (that is to say a concept that conforms to most of our intuitive expectations and runs counter to a few of them), which, in turn, significantly increases the probability of the acquisition and transmission of the Muse-concept within the culture.

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荷马和赫西奥德中的缪斯调用：一种认知方法

在本文中，我基于认知科学的最新进展，特别是宗教认知科学的最新进展，对最早的希腊史诗中缪斯的召唤进行了认知分析。我认为缪斯的概念很可能起源于一种依赖外部信息来源的感觉，以便为歌手提供歌曲的主题。通过过度活跃的代理检测，这种信息源被概念化为本体类型（或模板）“人”，而缪斯女神对战略信息的完全访问以及其他特征，将她确立为一个最低限度的反直觉概念（即就是说一个符合我们大多数直觉期望并与其中一些期望背道而驰的概念），反过来，