Wed, 30 Aug 2006

Brain scan of nuns finds no single 'God spot' in the brain

I could've subtitled this "looking for the gods in all the wrong places", but they were only looking at monotheist nuns remembering, not while actually having, mystical experiences. This may be a memory study, but it has nothing to do with detecting the divine.

So I hereby declare this a Study in Stupidity, and wonder aloud how many taxpayers dollars from the good citizens of Canada were wasted on this.

A new study at the Université de Montréal has concluded that there is no single God spot in the brain. In other words, mystical experiences are mediated by several brain regions and systems normally implicated in a variety of functions (self-consciousness, emotion, body representation). The study published in the current issue of Neuroscience Letters was conducted by Dr. Mario Beauregard from the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal and his student Vincent Paquette.

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On 8/30/2006 08:23:02
Thud wrote

On 8/30/2006 08:46:12
Dave H wrote

Yeah

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