Another interesting read.


http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1694723,00.html

its a very empty read . . . all about speculation.

davidylan:

its a very empty read . . . all about speculation.

What makes you say so?

bindex:

What makes you say so?

have you read it?

The author hasnt actually carried out the study yet.

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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