This article proposes a 7E model of the human mind, which was developed within the cognitive paradigm in religious studies and its primary expression, the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). This study draws on the philosophically most sophisticated currents in the cognitive sciences, which have come to define the human mind through a 4E model as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended. Introducing Catherine Malabou’s concept of “plasticity,” the study not only confirms the insight of the 4E model of the self as a decentered system, but it also recommends two further traits of the self that have been overlooked in the cognitive sciences, namely the negativity of plasticity and the tension between giving and receiving form. Finally, the article matures these philosophical insights to develop a concrete model of the religious mind, equipping it with three further Es, namely emotional, evolved, and exoconscious.

本文提出了一种人类思维的7E模型，该模型是在宗教研究的认知范式及其主要表达形式即宗教认知科学（CSR）中开发的）。这项研究借鉴了认知科学中最哲学上最复杂的潮流，这些潮流已经通过4E模型（体现，嵌入，活跃和扩展）定义了人类的思维。引入凯瑟琳·马拉布（Catherine Malabou）的“可塑性”概念后，该研究不仅证实了自我4E模型作为一种偏心系统的见解，而且还提出了认知科学中被忽略的自我的另外两个特征，即否定性可塑性以及给予和接受形式之间的张力。最后，本文完善了这些哲学见解，以建立宗教思想的具体模型，并为其配备了另外三个E，即情感的，进化的和外意识的E。