Re: Religion center in the brain

In <4506dcac$0$14663$ed362ca5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Glen M.
Sizemore gmsizemore2@xxxxxxxxx said:
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: "Kali" <kali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: > In <45067fb8$0$14701$ed362ca5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Glen M.
: > Sizemore gmsizemore2@xxxxxxxxx said:
: > :
: > : "Kali" <kali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: > : news:MPG.1f6df34596b8a549896bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: >
: > [...]
: >
: > : The process of visual perception occurs entirely in the brain. I
: > : have no idea what term you would prefer science to use to label
: > : this neurological process, and it doesn?t matter. One can say
: > : (or hypothesize or infer) that an organism has perceived a
: > : visual stimulus because its behavior correlates temporally with
: > : the presentation of the stimulus. Or one can actually read the
: > : published research and understand that visual perception is a
: > : functional process that occurs entirely within the brain of a
: > : living organism. The organism perceives a visual stimulus, and
: > : the process of perceiving the visual stimulus has occured
: > : entirely in the brain.
: > :
: > : GS: No, perception is an activity of an animal and it occurs in the
: > world.
: > : The behavior that we call perception is mediated by physiology as is
: > : shooting pool, having sex, informing people that they don't know what
: > they're
: > : talking about, saying "who's your daddy," etc.
: >
: > The "center" of your "perception in the world" seems to be
: > located in your genitalia.
: >
: > And the physiological process of visual perception occurs in
: > "the world".
: >
: > Fascinating stuff.
:
: I was pretty sure that you wouldn't have anything substantive to say, and it
: appears as though I was correct.

Substance begets substance, "Daddy".

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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