Re: Mind's Eye Magic and research

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 <allanh1...@gmail.com> 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..
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> that would be alright..   (",)
> Allan
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> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The very man.
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> > On 21 Sep, 08:55, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > are we talking about Baron Stanley Fink?
> > > Allan
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> > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:36 AM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I discovered today that the Chairman of the Tory Party is Lord Fink.
> > > > You couldn't make it up!
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> > > > On 20 Sep, 17:33, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> 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
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> > > > > 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
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> > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045457
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> > > > > > 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.
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> > > > > > 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?
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> > > > > > 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).
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> > > > > > 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.
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> > > > > > Rather than describing human nature, great literature hides it
> > from us.
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> > > > > > --
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> > > > > --
> > > > >  (
> > > > >   )
> > > > > |_D Allan
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> > > > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
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> > > > > I am a Natural Airgunner -
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> > > > >  Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.
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> > > > --
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> > > --
> > >  (
> > >   )
> > > |_D Allan
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> > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
>
> > > I am a Natural Airgunner -
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> > >  Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.
>
> > --
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> --
>  (
>   )
> |_D Allan
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> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
>
> I am a Natural Airgunner -
>
>  Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.

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