Mind-body dualism is an intuitive building block of all religious thinking.

Evidence

What Bloom is referring to here is an intuitive belief in mind-body dualism—the idea that there is something immaterial in a person that is separate from the physical body and may survive physical death. It’s the feeling of “I” that is distinct from the body and the brain. As we saw in chapter 2, dualism is one of the intuitive building blocks of religious thinking. To believe in a soul, or in various gods and spirits, one has to intuitively get this kind of dualism. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 574

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the dualism intuition that religious belief is built on.