![]() ![]() If the user selects "Yes", allow them to confirm the title of the nonexistent link by pre-populating a text field with whatever was highlighted.We should be given the option of "Yes" or "Cancel". When the user clicks "No", a second dialog presents itself asking whether to create a nonexistent link.In addition to the options for "Yes" or "Cancel", add an option for "No".If no match is found when the user highlights text, and clicks "Insert Link to Thought", TB currently asks us if we would like to create that thought or not.Suggested Implementation of Nonexistent/Wiki-Style Thought Links: Add an option that enables TheBrain to parse the Note Text of the currently loaded thought to create temporary thought links out of any words or phrases that match a Title, Tag, Label, or Category that already exists in that brain.Enable us to make Thought Links to thoughts that don't actually exist yet without requiring us to actually make the new thought (as is possible in a wiki).This is actually a pair of related features: PersonalBrain 4.3 Experimental Release Archive Understanding what’s going on in the brain can bring a rationale to this process,” says senior author and neuroradiologist Jeff Anderson, noting that it still should be learned how followers of other religions react in the same situations.TheBrain for iOS 1.0 Beta - Password required “Religious experience has perhaps the strongest influence on decisions that affect all of us, good and bad. Spiritual sensations also affected areas of the brain associated with attention. In addition, the researchers found that spiritual feelings are also associated with the activation of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for tasks involving evaluation, judgment, and moral reasoning. As soon as people reached this peak, their breathing and heart rate increased. The peak of activity was starting 1-3 seconds before the participants pressed the button and was repeated in each of the tasks. Image is credited to Jeffrey Anderson.īased on fMRI scans, scientists have found that powerful spiritual feelings are associated with activation of the nucleus accumbens, a critical area of the brain for processing information related to pleasure and reward. The scan shows that the reward center in the nucleus accumbens is also becoming active. An fMRI scan demonstrates regions of the brain that are activated when participants experience intense spiritual sensations. ![]() In one experiment, participants even pressed special buttons when they experienced a peak of spiritual ecstasy while watching church movies. They described serenity and a physical feeling of warmth. The scientists collected detailed assessments of the feelings of the participants, who almost always reported that they experienced different sensations typical for worship. Participants rated their feelings on a scale ranging from “not feeling” to “feeling strongly.” ![]() The study included six minutes of rest, six minutes of audiovisual monitoring (video detailing their church membership statistics), eight minutes of listening to quotes from Mormons and various religious leaders around the world, eight minutes of reading familiar passages from the Book of Mormons, 12 minutes of audiovisual stimuli (Church family videos (not home videos, no), Bible stories and others with emotional religious content), and, finally, another eight minutes of quotes.ĭuring the quotation part of the study, participants, each of whom were strong religion fans, were asked, “Do you feel the spirit?” After each new quotation. The results of such an interesting study are reported in the Social Neuroscience journal.ĭuring the MRI’s, 19 young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including seven women and 12 men, performed tasks for an hour that were supposed to generate spiritual experiences. So both religion and opium affect the same brain system, although the phrase connecting the first and the second (“Religion is the opium of the people”) was uttered not by a neuroscientist and not even by Karl Marx. It turns out that the spiritual things they experience activate the reward system in the brain in the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music. Scientists from the School of Medicine at the University of Utah have found out why many people tend to dive deep into religion for life, as well as follow religious rules and believe in miracles. ![]()
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