2009/8/11 deripsni <[email protected]>

>
> Do you consider ideas, imagination, fantasy, hope as being
> material as well?


Until someone proves beyond reasonable doubt otherwise, I cautiously listen
to scientific arguments about such things. We know that chemicals stimulate
all of the above things you describe.

For example, imagination or, more accurately, divergent thinking is affected
by n-acetyl-aspartate (NAA). According a study in the Journal of
Neuroscience, NAA is a bit of a funny one, because for people with lower IQs
(sub-120) the less present in their anterior cingulate gyrus the more
creative they are, whereas in people with 120+ IQs, the opposite was true.

http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/16/5319

Ian

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