Category: Materialism
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Philosophy, brain function, probiotics...
UCLA researchers now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an…
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Brain "dead" and the Industry of Transplants...
Brain dead is not necessarily... “dead”! The fact is that the criteria for "death" based on "the death of the brain" were invented by a committee at Harvard (hence the "Harvard Criteria", based on 0 experiments by the way) the members of which had relations to organ transplantation. And today these criteria are used to support a multi-billion dollar industry…
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Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific "lack of validity". The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that…
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TED, atheists, censorship…
TED is supposed to be a platform to facilitate the organization of talks about interesting subjects by interesting people. But when Sheldrake decided to talk about 10 dogmas of modern science (one of which is related to non-localized consciousness, which, according to the speaker, can exist outside of our brain) and when Hancock decided to talk about consciousness, dreams and psychedelia then…
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Brain, Memory & Plasticity against materialism
Many people believe in the materialistic explanation of consciousness, which demands that all functions of our mind take place into our brain. And even more people believe that the very basic problem of memory is one of the first that have been "solved". Right? Wrong. Scientists do not know where exactly is memory located. To…
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