I'm a better scientist than magician. How about this for 'farming the brain'?
Studies have shown that a brain region known as the right temporo- parietal junction (TPJ) is highly active when we think about other people's intentions, thoughts and beliefs. This is key in our moral decision-making. In a new study, the researchers disrupted activity in the right TPJ by inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the scalp. They found that the subjects' ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding of other people's intentions -- for example, a failed murder attempt -- was impaired. So, with a little magnetism (Gabby will soon have the portable version working at Junkers-Ribbentropp) we will soon be able to do away with all this argument nonsense. First ze Ignobles, und zen ze wooldt. On 21 Sep, 18:39, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that speechjammer,, that would be kool.. especially if it would be > mandatory for all politicians.. and people testifying before > government agency especially any form of law maker.. boy that list would > become long shortly.. > > that would be alright.. (",) > Allan > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > The very man. > > > On 21 Sep, 08:55, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > are we talking about Baron Stanley Fink? > > > Allan > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:36 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I discovered today that the Chairman of the Tory Party is Lord Fink. > > > > You couldn't make it up! > > > > > On 20 Sep, 17:33, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You are right,, b bu bu b bu but 'triune brain' sounds much kooler > > than > > > > > Qu qu qu quadrune.. > > > > > .a an and that word definitions; some of which not really printable > > in > > > > mix > > > > > company .. you potentially bad boy Neil ..lol > > > > > > I actually think in a way that is common knowledge.. often times have > > > > > really no idea what they are talking about,, I know I don't, as I am > > > > full > > > > > of hot air ready to expel it quickly. Actually I think there is so > > much > > > > hot > > > > > expelled that is what keeps the earth floating in space. > > > > > Allan > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045457 > > > > > > > These Swedish researchers used a magic trick to show that people's > > > > > > answers to survey questions are unreliable. I noticed many years > > ago > > > > > > that most people haven't much clue what they are on about and can't > > > > > > tell chalk from cheese. We are, in the main, moral wuckfits. > > > > > > > The trick used was to get people to answer a few questions but > > change > > > > > > a couple of the answers through a magic dodge. People argued in > > > > > > support of the changed answers. even though they were the opposite > > of > > > > > > the views they'd only just expressed. We have known 8 out of 10 > > cats > > > > > > prefer Whiskas to powdered glass for many years (one of our > > pampered > > > > > > pouch-devourers has just turn his nose up at Sheba as though I was > > > > > > trying to poison him). Why do we have so much trouble taking in > > the > > > > > > notion that companies pay for advertising because most people are > > > > > > gulled by it and basically so stupid most of them operate with the > > > > > > brain on switch off? > > > > > > > This paper isn't all that interesting in-itself. What is > > interesting > > > > > > is that much more material like this is appearing on PLos through > > open > > > > > > access. One hopes the move away from vanity publishing and > > restricted > > > > > > access. Over the years I found less than one in a hundred academic > > > > > > papers worthwhile (one reads thousands in a research project and at > > > > > > least half are likely to be outside the university's subscription > > and > > > > > > cost $10 or so through inter-library loans - or $40 to the private > > > > > > punter). > > > > > > > Science doesn't have much comforting to tell us on human nature - > > this > > > > > > is probably why most people don't want to know. It's probably > > time to > > > > > > a new treatise on human nature. Economists are just discovering > > the > > > > > > 'triune brain' (I was taught brain stem, reptilian, mammalian and > > the > > > > > > cerebellum 45 years ago - I note that adds up to 4 and quadrune). > > In > > > > > > fact there's plenty of reasonable science that demonstrates we are > > > > > > lying, cheating, rationalising, broadly stupid bastards and some do > > > > > > this in spades (we call them leaders or psychopaths) and most on a > > > > > > less daring scale. > > > > > > > Rather than describing human nature, great literature hides it > > from us. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > > > > ( > > > > > ) > > > > > |_D Allan > > > > > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > > > > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > > > > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > > ( > > > ) > > > |_D Allan > > > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. > > > -- > > -- > ( > ) > |_D Allan > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. --
