Re: Religion center in the brain

In <1157752504.963352.179650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Matt
Menge mspmenge@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
:
: Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
: > <jalegris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: > news:1157554167.358836.35350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > > Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
: > >> "Francis Burton" <fburton@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
: > >> news:1156956110.585369@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > >> > In article <4llpltF2eggvU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
: > >> > Joachim Pimiskern <JoachimPimiskern@xxxxxx> wrote:
: > >> >>A newer article cast doubt on the discovery:
: > >> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5296728.stm?lsf
: > >> >
: > >> > Oh dear, just because more than one spot lights up there isn't
: > >> > a "centre"?! Can someone name =any= brain function or activity
: > >> > that is localized to a single spot? To my mind, it doesn't make
: > >> > sense to talk about centres for this or that function until we
: > >> > at least define what we mean by "centre" in this context.
: > >>
: > >> You're right. All this talk about centers is a bunch of horsecrap. It
: > >> fits
: > >> in nicely with animism, though, and mainstream psychology, and the fields
: > >> it
: > >> has corrupted, is just a "modern" form of animism.
: > >>
: > >>
: > >
: > > You're seeing the crap before the horse. Modern neurology got its start
: > > from the apparent connections between specific brain injuries and
: > > associated behavioural changes. Some were borne out, others were not.
: > > So it goes, and now we sharpen the focus.
: >
: > But in the final analysis, correlations between brain loci and observed
: > deficits etc. don't explain how neurophysiology mediates behavioral
: > function. But it seems that it does to a number of people. Neuroimaging has,
: > for many, become a sort of endpoint. I suggest that this is because their
: > conceptualization is now, and has always been, a thinly-disguised animism.
: > They already talk as if indwelling entities - call them homunculi - see
: > copies of the world, make decisions on that basis, and pull the levers that
: > make behavior occur. And now they think they know where the little men are
: > hiding in the brain.

This strikes me as woefully out of touch.

: Haven't we analyzed the process of visual perception to the point where
: even different aspects of it have been localized to certain regions of
: the brain, kind of run in a parallel processing fashion?
:
: Best Regards,
:
: Matt

Yes, although the system is less parallel than dynamic. I wonder
who "they" (these referenced animists) are.

Kali
--
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former
begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates (c460-c.377 BCE) Greek physician. Law
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