I am being indifferent. Researchers have discovered the areas of the brain responsible for spiritual beliefs and experiences. It has long been theorised that a 'God spot' exists in the brain and now it seems that there may actually be more than one. "We have found a neuropsychological basis for spirituality, but its not isolated to one specific area of the brain," said psychology professor Brick Johnstone. "Certain parts of the brain play more predominant roles, but they all work together to facilitate individuals spiritual experiences." link I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain?
[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain? Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well.
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain? Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well. Lovely and all. But please don't turn my news thread into a YOU ARE GOING TO HELL/GOD DOESN'T EXIST thread =]
[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"][QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain? Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well. Lovely and all. But please don't turn my news thread into a YOU ARE GOING TO HELL/GOD DOESN'T EXIST thread =] I turn it into whatever I want!!
It's the dailymail, people. *Waits for the united allied internet atheist alliance to show up and proclaim how science once again proves that religion is dumb.*
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain? Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well. lol
[QUOTE="m25105"] *Waits for the united allied internet atheist alliance to show up and proclaim how science once again proves that religion is dumb.* I really hope people don't get the idea that this was my attempt =[
The media loves to misreport these sorts of things. It's especially prevalent in genetics and neuroscience where one can easily come away with the wrong understanding of what a study found if you don't have the proper background. Namely, here the writer is acting as if these brain areas were found to do nothing but determine how religious you are. In reality, what the researchers are saying they found is that these areas are involved in spirituality (which does not mean that they're responsible for spirituality). And really, what they found is pretty useless. Saying that damage or activity in an entire lobe is implicated in a particular behavior is sort of a "well no shlt sherlock" finding. Hell, by implicating both the frontal and temporal lobes they've essentially implicated half the damn brain. The frontal lobe functioning is especially unsurprising seeing as how that area of the brain is involved in just about every high-order behavior. What would have been more informative is if they had narrowed it down to a particular region of the frontal lobe. Anyway, the key thing to keep in mind here is that every part of the brain has more than one function. There is no such thing as a "(insert behavior/mental state here) center" of the brain, although there are parts of the brain that together create that behavior or mental state.
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain? Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well. And how is that?
[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain?UnIimitedAccess
Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well.
[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain?UnIimitedAccess
Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well.
It's the dailymail, people. *Waits for the united allied internet atheist alliance to show up and proclaim how science once again proves that religion is dumb.*m25105
The irony of religitards is almost hilarious. You play the victims all day, crying about discrimination, yet you're the most intolorant dickheads that ever existed,
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well.Heisenderp
It's the dailymail, people. *Waits for the united allied internet atheist alliance to show up and proclaim how science once again proves that religion is dumb.*m25105
The irony of religitards is almost hilarious. You play the victims all day, crying about discrimination, yet you're the most intolorant dickheads that ever existed,
I never said anything about discrimination. I think you are missing the spot in the brain telling you not to make strawman arguments.
The irony of religitards is almost hilarious. You play the victims all day, crying about discrimination, yet you're the most intolorant dickheads that ever existed,
Heisenderp
I never said anything about discrimination. I think you are missing the spot in the brain telling you not to make strawman arguments.
Hey mongoloid, you're the one making a strawman, or you're just too fcking stupid to read an elementary-school-grade sentence. You obviously have no fcking clue on how the brain works (or anything probably, I haven't seen a single religitarded bigot who displayed the intellectual capacity superior to a 5th grader), so go back to sucking Yahweh's cock and leave the science to people who aren't Bible-thumping rednecks.
Nice, so you're changing the subject after your blatant stupidity was exposed. Nice.. nice.. You don't know what my religion is, if I even have a religion and you couldn't even see that I was trolling. Dat intellectual capacity :roll:
I am being indifferent. Researchers have discovered the areas of the brain responsible for spiritual beliefs and experiences. It has long been theorised that a 'God spot' exists in the brain and now it seems that there may actually be more than one. "We have found a neuropsychological basis for spirituality, but its not isolated to one specific area of the brain," said psychology professor Brick Johnstone. "Certain parts of the brain play more predominant roles, but they all work together to facilitate individuals spiritual experiences." link I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain?FMAB_GTO
Maybe. It just may be a part of the brain that comes up with these sprituall experiences.People that don't have any may just not use them.
I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain?FMAB_GTO
There are parts of the brain associated with the appreciation of music, yet there is a lot of variation in the degree to which people enjoy music. In people who don't enjoy music or experience religion these areas of the brain are either not used or (more likely) serve some other purpose.
Yes, I've read about this before somewhere. Parts of the brain tend to be purposely susceptible to new ideas, particularly when someone is in a vulnerable state, such as a new life change or something like that. It's purposely done so for example, to fit into a group and to experience fulfillment. It's said this explains why someone who's been a strong atheist can suddenly become a devout Christian and vice versa.
I can believe it. The bigger issue for me is, whether it really is a receptacle for genuine dvivine spirits, God, whatever you wish, etc. I try to take a non-dualistic approach.
with no good reason to do so whatsoever and having not even seen their research, of course Is there a hair in your ass or something? What's with you? *shrug* I just thought I'd point out just how baseless your comment was. I apologise for the evidently not-inconsiderable butthurt caused
[QUOTE="gamerguru100"][QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]with no good reason to do so whatsoever and having not even seen their research, of courseFunky_Llama
Is there a hair in your ass or something? What's with you? *shrug* I just thought I'd point out just how baseless your comment was. I apologise for the evidently not-inconsiderable butthurt caused Apology accepted. :)
I've read (and posted) this a long time ago. Without reading the article, basically, there are multiple pleasure spots in the brain that are activated during religious thought in believers. There would be no "no spot" as the god spots need to be activated. Somewhere along the way, evolution decided this was a good trait to have.
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"] I never said anything about discrimination. I think you are missing the spot in the brain telling you not to make strawman arguments.UnIimitedAccess
Hey mongoloid, you're the one making a strawman, or you're just too fcking stupid to read an elementary-school-grade sentence. You obviously have no fcking clue on how the brain works (or anything probably, I haven't seen a single religitarded bigot who displayed the intellectual capacity superior to a 5th grader), so go back to sucking Yahweh's cock and leave the science to people who aren't Bible-thumping rednecks.
Nice, so you're changing the subject after your blatant stupidity was exposed. Nice.. nice.. You don't know what my religion is, if I even have a religion and you couldn't even see that I was trolling. Dat intellectual capacity :roll:
How can anyone possibly deduce that you were trolling?
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain? Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well. god awful poster
Hey mongoloid, you're the one making a strawman, or you're just too fcking stupid to read an elementary-school-grade sentence. You obviously have no fcking clue on how the brain works (or anything probably, I haven't seen a single religitarded bigot who displayed the intellectual capacity superior to a 5th grader), so go back to sucking Yahweh's cock and leave the science to people who aren't Bible-thumping rednecks.
Heisenderp
Nice, so you're changing the subject after your blatant stupidity was exposed. Nice.. nice.. You don't know what my religion is, if I even have a religion and you couldn't even see that I was trolling. Dat intellectual capacity :roll:
How can anyone possibly deduce that you were trolling?
[QUOTE="UnIimitedAccess"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] I'm not really buying all of this myself,what about people who have no God and dont even know if any God exists?have no "spot" in the brain?Diviniuz
Those people have already proven their mental incapacity so this comes as no surprise. They are probably missing a lot of other "spots" as well. god awful poster
As noted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and others, those who are not religious can still have "spiritual" experiences much like a religious believer would. The difference is that we attribute this to an appreciation of beauty in music, being in awe of the universe, etc. rather than some sort of religious revelation.
While again, like Neil Tyson I'd love to see some studies to actually confirm that experience is the same, I would say that any sort of "spiritual" experience I had when I was still attempting to believe has been duplicated and in some ways dwarfed by the secular revelations I have had since.
Half the world seems to be missing 'common sense' spots as well. :\
Kocelot
The problem with common sense is that many things we would think are true based upon it simply aren't. For instance, the sky is not blue, ice is less dense than water, what goes up does NOT have to come down, and vitamins can be bad for you.
If the world were not complex then simple common sense would work, but it's not so generally common sense is used as a way to describe peoples' pre-existing assumptions about how things SHOULD work, whether or not that is actually how they DO work.
I don't really believe this, though alot of studies arn't actually accurate nor scientific at all, alot of them are done just for agenda reasons. According to this then people who don't have "God spots" would be kind of disabeled because that part of their brain wouldn't work, however that's simply not possibe because there have been atheists who have become religious and religious people who bacame atheists.
It's all a matter of faith, though I do think everyone is born with a conciousness and the knowledge of God/Creator. Just some people choose not to recognise it.
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