195
Brain damage linked to increased likelihood of religious fundamentalism, new study finds
(www.techspot.com)
Share interesting articles, projects, research, pictures, or videos.
Please include a prefix in your title!
Certain clients offer filters to make prefixes searchable. Photon (m.lemmy.zip) used for hyperlinks below:
The impact brain chemistry has on all sorts of things is very poorly understood.
There's this device called a "God Helmet" which purports to induce religious experiences on demand through electromagnetic stimulation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet
There are other experiments with infrasound which appear to induce ghost like hallucinations:
https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunted-frequency
Could all the sensations of "a presence" or ghosts or spirits just be by-products of electromagnetic or auditory pollution? Possibly. Nobody wants to look into it because "well, clearly, spirits and such aren't real!"
It's a decided lack of curiosity. :(
I'm an atheist and committed skeptic when it comes to anything supernatural, but I'd love to try all of those. I'd really love to try them on a high dose of mushrooms.
On a high dose of mushrooms, blindfolded in a dark room, and with earphones on, you won’t even know you’re a person who’s taken a drug
They did for the god helmet. The wiki page references it as [17] https://doi.org/10.1558%2Fjcsr.v2i2.24573
It's not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents... they're all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There's no such thing as a soul.
https://youtu.be/LAlqp0_a0tE#t=11s