Everything is all in my brain. Because my brain is the filter through which I interpret the world. Everything is all in your brain. Because your brain is the filter through which you interpret the world. Everything is always in your brain.
In our grad school ethics class, one of the topics was science and religion, and the presenter brought up some brain scan studies done on religious people praying, and how they had specific brain activity when they were praying. One of the people in my class decided to take this to mean that therefore it couldn't possibly be real and it was just a brain malfunction. That it was proof that all religious experiences were not real.
I did not like this conclusion. Or this logic.
Because it was missing the clear bit of information, which is that everything we experience we process through our brain. I'm not going to argue about religion or God or gods or personal beliefs, because in general those are up to you to decide. But saying that something isn't real because there is specific brain activity associated with it is a horrible argument. Of course there is brain activity when people are praying or having religious experiences. The presence of brain activity does not make something NOT REAL. Because you experience everything through your brain.
That is sort of the point of having a centralized nervous system.Labels: BRAINS, did you really say that, grad school, my brain, rant, religion