Category: Mechanistic view
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All of our life, a single measurement…
New research from the University of Adelaide shows that weight gain and increased head size in the first month of a baby’s life is linked to a higher IQ at early school age. [1] Do you remember that funny Lucky Luke comic (Lucky Luke Collines Noirs) with some funny looking anthropologists who wanted to study…
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How educated are your… genes?!?
Genetic factors may exert a tiny influence on how much schooling a person ends up with, a new study suggests. [1] Sure. We have “discovered” all other stupid things that we can based on genes, why not this too? Science dogmatism has beginning to look more and more dangerous. And we though of Hitler as…
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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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Where is what we “see”?
People think what we see is in our brains. Like a small camera obscura. But Sheldrake reminds us of the obvious: What we see is not in our brains but we see it outside of it. A simple idea that could trigger a simple “huh?” by the haste reader. Think about it though: Even if…
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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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