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AtheistCrusader

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7. Functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emissive tomography disagree.

Reply to goldent (Reply #6)

Wed Oct 29, 2014, 01:48 AM

Oct 2014

As I said, we have very closely mapped out what parts of the brain are responsible for, or work together to produce these effects. It helps us find therapies for people who suffer from some forms of traumatic brain injury, inhibiting normal expression or experience of certain feelings. There's still tons to discover and learn, but to think we can't nail down the remaining details in our lifetimes is overly pessimistic, I would say. And I'm a pessimist.

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Science, Religion and the Assumptions We Make [View all] hrmjustin Oct 2014 OP

Good article. rug Oct 2014 #1

That is, in itself, a troubling starting place. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #2

Neurology does not even begin to encompass it. rug Oct 2014 #3

I respectfully disagree. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #4

This is a one of the fundamental faultlines between believers and atheists el_bryanto Oct 2014 #5

I certainly agree that belief in god does not signal abandonment of all things scientific. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #8

"Love, and all emotions I experience can, in my judgment, be quantified very precisely." goldent Oct 2014 #6

Functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emissive tomography disagree. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #7