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...what that means in physiological terms. To many readers, Harris is best known for his antireligious book The End of Faith. But he is also a neuroscientist. In a study reported in the Annals of Neurology, Harris presented 14 people with 360 statements designed to elicit belief, disbelief or uncertainty. He tracked their brain response with a functional magnetic resonance imager (fMRI) and got some very revealing results...
...forget. I hope they don't forget that the leading Democrats declared the war lost, months ago. That they're still committed. And that they still won't acknowledge that the surge has succeeded. I mean, they refuse to... Senator Clinton said [she] would have to suspend disbelief in order to believe that it's... working...
...Sander, the words that come to mind would be lighthearted and good natured,” Bell said at the time, referring to Pring-Wilson by a nickname. She said that other students in their 15-person master’s program were in “utter disbelief...
...complex, the subjective and the objective intertwine. Regardless of their content, statements that the subjects believed lit up the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a location in the brain best known for processing reward, emotion and taste. Equally "primitive" areas associated with taste, pain perception and disgust determined disbelief. "False propositions may actually disgust us," Harris writes...
...resonance imaging (fMRI) devices. It suggests that within the brain pan, at least, the distinction between objective and subjective is not so clear-cut. Although more complex assertions may get analyzed in so-called "higher" areas of the brain, all seem to get their final stamp of "belief" or disbelief in "primitive" locales traditionally associated with emotions or taste and odor. Even "2 + 2 = 4," on some level, is a question of taste. Thus, the statement "that just doesn't smell right to me" may be more literal than we thought...