What is neurotheology?
Q. What is neurotheology?
Asked by Irreverend - Thu Dec 14 13:28:08 2006 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Neurotheology is probably best thought of as a branch of neurology. In this particular sub-field, practictioners try to discover the neural basis of many things that are commonly thought to be religious or spiritual experiences. Though there are a number of scientists who study such things, they don't always use this term themselves - it derives from a fiction work by Aldous Huxley. Some of the things neurotheologists might do include studying artificial means of producing 'spiritual' experiences (such as directly stimulating neurons from the outside or using targetted drugs), explaining origins of common thought patterns through neurology (such as fuzzy memories of the past leading to questions of origin, or seizures as a source of 'div [cont.]
Answered by Doctor Why - Thu Dec 14 13:41:13 2006

One very weird question for neurologists?
Q. Particle wave duality shows that the defining characteristic of elementary physical entities exist in states which evolve like waves when they are not observed, and evolve like particles when observed. Does this not suggest that observation alone has the ability to effect reality? Can we then postulate that brain activity results in the production - through particle decay or whatever - of an as yet unknown quantum entity? Such an entity could tehn conceivably interact with other quanta to produce a result, could it not? If this were to be true, knowing that everything can be reuced to a boolean algebra of sorts, wouldn't it explain such things as the results generated by PEAR (the Princeton Engineering Anomaly Research lab), claims… [cont.]
Asked by ZombieTrix 2012 - Wed May 23 09:36:17 2007 - - 3 Answers - 1 Comments

A. One very weird answer for lay questioners: The human brain as we know, does not emmit subatomic particles of any kind, unless we induce the tissue to do so, by the means of radioactive substances (that is the basis of PET, or positive Electron Emission, injevting an unstable isotope, like florodeoxyglucose in the vein, waiting for it to reach the brain tissue, and measuring the emission of the regions that "catch" it, by means of thousands of sensors around the cranium, containing sodium iodine, which is a crystal sensitive to the positive accelerated particles..,...once the positive particle touches it, decomposes into two photons that split in oposite directions...That phenomenon is mapped by a computer, organized into a segmental map,… [cont.]
Answered by Sehr_Klug 50 - Wed May 23 09:58:38 2007

Is Religion a disease? If not, is Rationality a disease? In either case, should we be working on a Cure?
Q. It is a purely unbiased question. Neurotheology describes Religion as a different type of brain structure, in which through Chemical, Magnetic, and electrical patterns, one will either believe in religion, find it ridiculous, or be somewhere in between. So in that case, All religions could be various memes that take advantage of this mental defect. Or perhaps, Secularism is the disease, and Atheists have the defect, and are unable to see what is truth. In either case, one becomes right and the other becomes wrong, but how to tell which one is which? and should we begin to treat the other not as being an opponent,. but as merely being ill? And if the others are ill, should we be working on a cure?
Asked by Derik R - Fri Sep 26 01:54:08 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. If religion produces joy and comfort and peace and hope and freedom from mental stress, then, You have no need to find a cure, as the doctors have no medical complaint to which to assign the religious fervour, Yet if the religion creates oppression and untold cruelty, then you must find a cure, If rationality works, and it does not work by the way, then it would be a fine and happy world, but it is not , and so you need a cure for rationality and fraternising of the eternal issue of morality and mortality. the cure to all this is the King James 1611 Bible, and the salvation of the souls of humans, and the living of the Bible, and the changing of cathartic lives for the Lord Jesus. Your cure is complete, but as all good medicines go,… [cont.]
Answered by dearly beloved - Fri Sep 26 09:25:49 2008