Neuroscience
2006-08-30 18:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexibeastBrain scan of nuns finds no single 'God spot' in the brain, Université de Montréal study finds
Hmm . . . . i would suggest that the study is far too limited to be drawing such a conclusion (outside of naïve falsificationism). Nuns are hardly the only people on the planet who have mystical experiences; nor are everyone's mystical experiences the same (although there often are similarities). Then, too, the fact that the study was based on recollections of experiences rather than the actual experiences themselves is cause for further caution in interpreting the results. But i guess caution rarely begets publicity . . . .
Hmm . . . . i would suggest that the study is far too limited to be drawing such a conclusion (outside of naïve falsificationism). Nuns are hardly the only people on the planet who have mystical experiences; nor are everyone's mystical experiences the same (although there often are similarities). Then, too, the fact that the study was based on recollections of experiences rather than the actual experiences themselves is cause for further caution in interpreting the results. But i guess caution rarely begets publicity . . . .
