Category: Δογματισμός
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Brain, Mind and How to read Harmonia Philosophica.
A brain pathway that underlies the emotional behaviors critical for survival have been discovered by neuroscientists. The team has identified a chain of neural connections which links central survival circuits to the spinal cord, causing the body to freeze when experiencing fear. Understanding how these central neural pathways work is a fundamental step towards developing effective treatments for emotional…
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Fear. Behaviour. Fear. Behaviour.
A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior. Far-reaching neurons in the central amygdala, the location of fear memory in the brain seen here in red (right), directly contact neurons in the…
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Not "good science"!
No no no! This is not "good science"! (1) For eons some people like to define what is "correct". Different names - "holy", "divine", "scientific" - always implying the same vanity and lust for control...
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Dogmatic Religion = Dogmatic Science = Belief in senses!
A belief in the literal Biblical version of creation may boil down, in part, to personality. A new study suggests that people who believe in creationism are more likely to prefer to take in information via their senses versus via intuition. In contrast, religious believers who see the Bible's creation story as symbolic tend to…
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Feeling different! Feeling human!
Two interesting news... First: Where do humans fall in the food chain? You can probably already guess it's somewhere between cows and polar bears, but a new study now puts a number to it: Somewhere between 2.0 and 2.6, depending on where you live. That's on a scale of 1 to about 5, in which…
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