Category: Dogmatism
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ESP, sixth sense, beliefs, beliefs.
Ever get the feeling you have extrasensory perception, or ESP -- a "sixth sense" that gives you powers of perception that transcend the familiar five senses? Well, you're wrong about that. A new study, published online Jan. 13 in the journal PLOS ONE, shows that there's simply no such thing as a sixth sense. Didn't…
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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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Deleting memories to... errrr... I forgot!
Scientists claim that they can use specific drus to block bad memories from forming. They also claim they can erase bad memories! (1) But how can you do that when you do not know how memory works or where memories are stored? (check out the relative "memory" tag in both Harmonia Philosophica portals) How dangerous…
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