Supose we're nearer to prove that "god" is nothing but a virtual state of
the human mind...and limitted to a certain part of the brain.
Gomes.
At 22:27 30/10/97 -0800, you wrote:
>(taken from another email list...)
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>and yet another somewhat interesting article in the l.a. times:
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>October 29, 1997
>Study Suggests Brain May Affect Religious Response
>>From a Times Staff Writer
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>New Oreleans- No one knows why humanity felt its first religious
>stirrings,
>but researchers at UC San Diego reported Tuesday that the human brain
>may be
>hard-wired to hear the voice of heaven, in what researchers said was the
>first effort to directly address the neural basis of religious
>expression.
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>In a provocative experiment with patients suffering from an unusual form
>of
>epilepsy, researcher determined that parts of the brain's temporal
>lobe-which
>the scientists quickly dubbed the "God module"- may affect how intensely
>a
>person responds to religious beliefs.
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>They emphasized that their findings do not suggest religion is simply a
>matter of brain chemistry. "These studies do not in any way negate the
>validity of reilgious experience or God," the team cautioned.
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