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 clipped by: einbar clipper's remarks: "The mind seems to have the ability to transcend itself and merge with a larger presence that feels more real. ..." Clip Source: www.mostphotos.com Clip Source: www.atimes.com Over the past several years, the momentum has shifted away from hardcore materialism. The brain seems less like a cold machine. . Instead, meaning, belief and consciousness seem to emerge mysteriously from idiosyncratic networks of neural firings. Those squishy things called emotions play a gigantic role in all forms of thinking. Love is vital to brain development. Researchers now spend a lot of time trying to understand universal moral intuitions. Genes are not merely selfish, it appears. Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the brain (people experience a decrease in activity in the parietal lobe, which orients us in space). The mind seems to have the ability to transcend itself and merge with a larger presence that feels more real. ... |
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