The Neurology of Spiritual Experience
The science of spirituality has become something of a hot topic in the past few decades. Some of this may…


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The science of spirituality has become something of a hot topic in the past few decades. Some of this may…

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The notion that consciousness is confined to the brain, like software in a computer, has dominated science and philosophy for close to two centuries. Yet, according to this incisive review of contemporary neuroscience from Berkeley philosopher Nöe, the analogy is deeply flawed. In eight illuminating, mercifully jargon-free chapters, he defines…
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A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated…

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Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can "reconstruct the images…
