Truth and the Temporal Lobe?

[moof]

Maybe it is not the observer but the brain inside the observers head.
Some research of the human brain suggests that the degree to which a person accepts myth as reality may be a function of their temporal lobe.

In short there is little reason to continue posting replies on myth threads about how absurd it is to assume supernatural stuff is real.

Some people may have dissonance, some people may have overactive temporal lobes but there is little to gain in trying discuss reality with members of either group on an internet BB even if you could tell the difference.

A last point, what is the point in responding to such a thread.
Sometimes it is difficult to tell who is more unsure of reality
the thread author or the skeptic that replies.

The point of this thread is to desuade people from wasting their time responding to threads where the author seems sure the surernatural is real. Hopefully the thread will drop off the front page faster. Also it seems many people can not understand why so many people seem to believe things that are not based in reality, maybe this will help to explain what may be going on a little.

[havocmom]

1. The belief that all is known and there is no 'supernatural' is a myth,

and I shant waste time trying to convince you

:evilgrin:

[Eloriel]

2. I couldn't agree more

but from the other direction. I have a completely different (more expanded) view of what is Reality.

But you're perfectly entitled to your more narrow, limited view. I'm perfectly fine with that, if that's what you need.

[heidler1]

3. Do you have a link for this?

I can confirm, from personal experience, that it is hopeless except from the standpoint of hopefully squelching the influence of the nut cases over other people. For instance those who believe in intelligent design most likely need this for self assurance, but those who have just heard about it probably have not wrapped themselves in it yet and could be influenced.

[moof]

4. here's a link to the show done on the Doctor that is researching it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/

Looking for a link to the case that really spotlighted the topic.
But here is a brief description.

One of Dr. Ramachandran's patients had suffered an accident which left them subject to intense frontal lobe brainstorms, seizures. This patient's father noted that the actual seizure was not really what they were dealing with, it was the after affects, the earthquake and aftershocks of the mind that had altered their lives so profoundly. As Dr. Ramachandran explored this situation he proposed some intriguing answers to what this patient was experiencing and why. He suggested that the normal activity of the mind washes across an 'emotional landscape' and makes hills and valleys as we relate emotion to our surroundings; when this patient had a seizure the activity of his mind accelerated and the mind no longer 'washed' across his emotional landscape but 'eroded' it at a much higher pace. He suggested that this type of accelerated mental activity also occurs when the mind is placed under trauma or stress. This 'eroded' landscape pushed the emotions outside of the range we would consider to be 'normal' and propelled the individual into extreme emotional and (transcendent) states. The patient within this actual event related everything within their perception of reality to be resonating with divine influences. The patient suggested that it was his belief that it was possible that all 'religious' messiah's noteworthy in human history may have been subjected to these or similar brain seizures which caused this emotional landscape to erode into much higher peaks and valleys propelling the mind into thoughts, ideas and experiences that the individual had never believed were even possible. It was interesting to note that this same patient had express a resounding 'lack' of religious or spiritual belief prior to his accident.