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Kupaurk

Neuroscience and God

October 8, 2007 4:40pm

I have TLE with strictly simple partial psychic seizures, And I'm an atheist.

There's nothing about these seizures that couldn't be compared to drug experiences. I think the same personality types that attribute great spiritual revelations and religious experiences to, say, LSD, are the same types to put supernatural labels on their seizures. It's altered consciousness for seconds/minutes at a time.

I think the too much credit is given to the "God Lobe" aspect of the temporal lobes. I think the correlation is just that the temporal lobes are just so often the foci of simple partials.

Decline of pirates, increase of global warming...

Function of the appendix found? A good bacteria safehouse.

October 6, 2007 4:18pm

Pfft. There goes my superiority complex.

/born without appendix....

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