Thanks for the laymans explanation! As far as "bare with me" is concerned...umm I think I'll take a rain cheque on that proposal! Nothing personal, just a bit of a gender issue hahaha
I'm sorry, but I'm going to stick with my non-material consideration of spirit, and even emotions. Maybe chemicals DO cause the symptons of emotion, but what makes one feel emotion? Two people can witness the same incident and one be very hurt by it and the other doesn't feel anything. They both have the same chemicals, but those chemicals don't work the same way in each person. I write that up to conscience, which to me is non-material. On Aug 11, 4:07 pm, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/11 deripsni <[email protected]> > > > > > I presume that mood-altering drugs were developed by chemists to treat > > depression etc, and that studying the effect of natural chemical > > reactions in the body aided with this work. However, how does this > > account for premonition, inspiration and other such activity? Try to > > keep it in laymans terms since I haven't read every medical journal > > ever written, as it seems you have ;-] > > How does what account for premonition and inspiration? I think you > need to be clear about what you're asking. > > In psychology, I would say "inspiration" and "creativity" would both > fall under divergent thinking (which I already provided a link to a > study on the chemical NAA). > > Intuition, of which there are several kinds, is a tough one. If you > take social intuition (non-verbal communication, say), then it > operates in the caudate and putamen of our basal ganglia (bare with > me). Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that operates on the basal > ganglia's receptors and, funnily enough, dopamine disorders in the > brain are common in people who struggle with social cognitive > disorders. Thus, if it was your question, mood-altering drugs could > effect the the substantia nigra and the ventral tegmental area -- two > of areas of the brain where dopamine is produced -- and could change a > person's ability to access intuitive non-verbal communication > functions. > > I don't know if there's been any studies on this, but the idea isn't > without precedence. We know that some cancers or aphasias in or around > Wernicke's or Brocca's can impair communication by affecting > receptors. Why not the ability to process non-verbal communication > too? > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
