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Yeah, and I don't want to be really condescending about it or anything. The one general theme of neurology is "the brain can do anything" anyway, so...
Wait.. how did out of body experiences come into this?
Sleep paralysis? You're paralyzed while in REM sleep because signals to and from the spinal cord are actively suppressed. It's not uncommon to...
Madanthonywayne: That's weird, not what I was taught. Well, it all sounds right except for the images of spiders and snakes bit. Searching the...
David Chalmers defined consciousness as two problems a while ago, and that's been picked up by the scientific community pretty widely since then....
Re: Myles per Prof. Greenfield. Was that regarding the hard problem or the easy problem?
Lord Voldemort: You sent me a PM, but I can't reply since I don't have 20 posts yet so I'll just respond here, since its more or less on topic....
Fraggle Rocker: Ok, good, just checking. I by no means was claiming credit for coming up with that incredibly original insight. Just wanted to make...
For instance, the major observation from the dreaming studies was that slow wave sleep was characterized by slower oscillations that were coherent...
Don't misinterpret me--there's nothing supernatural about consciousness being "internal." It actually makes consciousness a lot easier to work with...
Re: is the advantage in expression or possession. Really there's no difference. Remember that function comes from structure, so by possessing the...
Fraggle Rocker, I'd contest your point that dreaming is always "unconscious." Lucid dreaming is a pretty well tested phenomenon, and dreamers can...
In biology, the main theme is "structure and function." That is, by understanding the structure we can discern the function, since function arises...
Here, I'll just explain what selection is: selection is the differential reproduction of life forms that vary in fitness for their environment. If...
What soul?
Oh dear. We can argue over this all day, but I'll agree with Fraggle Rocker and just give the most accepted _scientific_ answer: Everything that...
There's a fine line here that we need to beware of: it's one thing to describe the behavior of a system, which is totally irrespective of whether we...
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