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Guest: Bob
(894 days ago)
So she put on the helmet and heard Morgan Freeman? Have I got this right?
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Guest: Beaver
(895 days ago)
Cough! coughbullshit Cough!
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Guest: Darwins Radio
(894 days ago)
Glad to see someone has carried on working on this - read about it years ago.
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Latest comment: Most religions don't have a concept of a personal afterlife. The modern popular ones mostly do but ancient cultures didn't. Even early Judaism probably didn't. Early religion was just about explaining the world. So the whole relief of death anxiety idea doesn't really work.
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Guest: T
(894 days ago)
So, I guess since you can induce the brain to experience other people too, and shapes, colours etc, none of these things actually exist either. Or alternatively, that's just the part of the brain where you interpret a certain valid experience. All this experiment does is go further in an attempt to disprove Cartesian Dualism, a critical examination of this shows something much less profound than what is suggested.
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Guest: Darwins Radio
(894 days ago)
Well, chipping away at nonsense like dualism is useful enough in its own right. However, discovering a structure in the brain that can provide religious like mind states, without recourse to supernatural forces, is still pretty profound in my book.
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Guest: loki
(894 days ago)
sweet. over 80% of guinea pigs had a trip. would like to see correlation of subject's attachment style to trippyness. sure people with secure attachments are on another planet already
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Guest: Partian
(894 days ago)
Extreemly interesting and enlighting experiment. But what does this mean actually? Did he find a way to induce hallusinations or did he just find a way to open a gate to another dimenssion? The same effects also can be reached with drugs. So this maybe just another step in unveiling the biochemical side of a spiritual expirience.
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Guest: Your name
(894 days ago)
He induced brain activity in a region of the brain that causes these visions or hallucinations
This also works with for example tho motor cortex, if you send megnetic pulses to the motor cortex, you can make your arm or leg twitch, or if you stimulate the visual cortex, you see flashing lights.
This is just an more advanced longer term application.
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Guest: Your name
(894 days ago)
All interacting with variouse dimenssions.
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Guest: (894 days ago)
The experiment on Domenica sounds unethical. She was told it was an experiment on relaxation, but it was not.
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Guest: Your name
(894 days ago)
Under international law anyone unable to avoid overusing the adjective, "Awesome" is reclassified as a form of plant life.
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Guest: Aberdeen Angus
(895 days ago)
Since we were created by god, that fact that a neuroscientist has induced a religious experience that we perceive through our complex brains when we connect with 'otherness', then it comes as no surprise.
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Guest: Realist
(894 days ago)
Scientific proof that religion is horsesh!t fiction. Of course the religious will deny this, just like a drug addict denying they have a problem.
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