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The problem of believing in belief on Mind Hacks

By on January 24, 2011 in belief systems, philosophy, psychology

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The problem of believing in belief on the mindhacks blog

What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith Time Magazine

The pictures above are from a study by Sam Harris that examined neurophysiological correlates of belief statements by a number of psychology expermement subjects.

Who is Sam Harris. Here is what Mind Hacks has to say about him.

Sam Harris is better known as a leading atheist, but he’s also completing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and a forthcoming study by Harris is a flawed but important contribution to how we understand the neuropsychology of belief. Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

In The Province Of The Mind on Thinking Allowed John C. Lilly, M.D.

By on September 12, 2010 in artificial intelligence, authors, belief systems, community, counterculture, people, philosophy, psychology, science

Link for this Post: Transcript of Dr. John Lilly Interviewed by Jeffery Mishlove

I found this written transcript of a long defunct television show called Thinking Aloud. I did not research its origins thoroughly but my guess it is from 1976 or so. The reason I believe this (no pun intended) is that I did my first newspaper interview around that time for a small LA Underground newspaper around then and it was with Dr. Lilly.

He had just completed the same book, The Center of the Cyclone which he talks about extensively in the interview. I found it while looking Read more »

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