Figure 1.

Conceptual representation of GOD-related concepts. Note: The sensorimotor modalities are organized hierarchically, with lower levels encoding low-level information (blue elongated rectangles) and higher convergence zones encoding co-activations within the modalities (blue squares), and even higher convergence zones encoding co-activations across different modalities (large blue rectangles). Activation can spread from the lower level regions upwards (orange arrows) and from higher order convergence zones to lower level regions (blue arrows). In representing GOD-related concepts, action-oriented elements (kneeling-ness) and visuospatial elements (up-ness) are constitutive and therefore important to the representation. Adapted from Meyer and Damasio (2009).