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The Mindful Hack

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Language:	English
Tags:	neuroscience, spirituality, mysticism
Description:	The Mindful Hack covers topics that relate to neuroscience, religion, spirituality, and mysticism, from a non-materialist point of view. I am not interested in demonstrating that it doesn't happen. I want to know what did happen.
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Neurosurgery: does "slice 'n' dice" cut it, when mental disorders are in question?

In "Brain Power: Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk" (Benedict Carey, New York Times, November 26, 2006), we learn about attempts to cure mind problems like obsessive-compulsive diso...more

2009-12-19

Neuroscience and popular culture: Neuroscientist examines brains of his family members for killer ge

Here we read, The idea was to correlate findings from his family's brain scans with a parallel analysis of genes thought to be associated with aggression and violence. Changing activity in certain ...more

2009-12-19

Neuroscience and popular culture: How much are journalists to blame for pop science culture?

Don't blame journalists, says Jonah Lehrer here on the reporting of science. He makes some excellent points: Scientists are almost never subjected to critical coverage in the mainstream media. Quic...more

2009-12-19

Psychology: Think positively - or peel potatoes!

A friend tells me that the US Army's new weapon is "thinking positively": FACED with rising rates of depression, post traumatic stress disorder, drug abuse and suicide among its war-weary soldiers,...more

2009-12-19

Pop Neuroscience and spirituality: "Dear God, please don't exist, so I can get lucrative assign

Here's another gem from the treasure house of New Scientist (Andy Coghlan, "Dear God, please confirm what I already believe", 30 November 2009), God may have created man in his image, but it seems ...more

2009-12-19

Uncommon Descent Contest Question 18: Can the ancient reptile brain help explain human psychology? I

(Note: Go here for Contest 16 ("Are materialist atheists smarter than other types of believers?") and here for Contest 17 ("Why do evolutionary psychologists need to debunk compassion?"). )We have,...more

2009-12-12

Uncommon Descent Contest Question 17: Why do evolutionary psychologists need to debunk compassion?

Well, it certainly sounds like debunking to me. According to the evolutionary psychologists, either compassion is a useful gene or it somehow spreads our selfish genes or it is an accidental "spand...more

2009-12-12

Uncommon Descent Contest Question 16: Are materialist atheists smarter than other types of believers

At any rate, so claimed a 1986 study about which Regis Nicoll writes here. I say "smarter than other types of believers" because atheism is a form of belief like any other. Usually, in North Americ...more

2009-12-12

MercatorNet: Can evolution explain religion?

Here's my MercatorNet column (10 December 2009),Can evolution explain religion?Evolutionary psychologists offer two contradictory explanations for the

2009-12-11

Interview with me: What makes O'Leary tic? - but those Word Guild people have ways of making me toc

Here is an interview with me at Hot Apple Cider, an anthology of writing in various genres by Canadians who are devout Christians. I have an article in there. If you think HAC is mostly devotionals...more

2009-12-10

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