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What Your Brain Looks Like On Faith. by bindex(m): 6:02pm On Dec 17, 2008 |
Re: What Your Brain Looks Like On Faith. by Nobody: 8:58pm On Dec 17, 2008 |
its a very empty read . . . all about speculation. |
Re: What Your Brain Looks Like On Faith. by bindex(m): 9:43pm On Dec 17, 2008 |
davidylan: What makes you say so? |
Re: What Your Brain Looks Like On Faith. by Nobody: 12:00am On Dec 18, 2008 |
bindex: have you read it? The author hasnt actually carried out the study yet. |
Re: What Your Brain Looks Like On Faith. by Nimshi: 3:57am On Dec 18, 2008 |
A study has been carried out; the (preliminary) results are reported: Harris tested how the brain responded to assertions in seven categories: mathematical, geographic, semantic, factual, autobiographical, ethical and religious. All seven provided some useful data, but only the ones relating to math and ethics produced results clear enough to give a vivid picture of the way the simple and the complex, the subjective and the objective intertwine. Regardless of their content, statements that the subjects believed lit up the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a location in the brain best known for processing reward, emotion and taste. Equally "primitive" areas associated with taste, pain perception and disgust determined disbelief. "False propositions may actually disgust us," Harris writes.. |
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