Category: Belief
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Καλή Ανάσταση! (On the irrationality of the modern belief in death)
Happy Easter! ("Καλή Ανάσταση" in Greek literally means 'Happy Resurrection') And let not the irrationality of the miracle of resurrection hinder you from believing. The most important things in life we anyway do not understand. Our self. Being. The cosmos itself. And yet we are defined by them. And we live by them. Yes, the…
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Placebo.
Give people a sugar pill, they have shown, and those patients – especially if they have one of the chronic, stress-related conditions that register the strongest placebo effects and if the treatment is delivered by someone in whom they have confidence – will improve. Tell someone a normal milkshake is a diet beverage, and his…
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Believing in the brain...
Humans constantly experience an ever-changing stream of subjective feelings that is only interrupted during sleep and deep unconsciousness. Finnish researches show how the subjective feelings map into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses. All these feelings were imbued with strong bodily sensations. (1) In both ADHD and emotional…
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Reproducibility problem.
A team co-led by Gideon Nave of Penn's Wharton School replicated 21 high-profile social science studies and found discrepancies with the original research, including eight studies that failed to find significant evidence for the original finding. Researchers betting in prediction markets, however, were quite accurate at predicting which findings would replicate and which would not.…
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Moon landing. Jesus resurrection. Stories told. Stories forgotten.
We recently celebrated the 50 years anniversary of the moon landing. And yet, we saw many headlines of people speaking in favor of a conspiracy theory which wants the moon landing to be a hoax. I will not stand in the details of this funny conspiracy theory. What I will try to do is show…
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