A study in the journal Neuron reports that researchers might have found the neural basis of spirituality in the brain's posterior parietal region.
This is great stuff, with all kinds of potential to inspire righteous anger in the ecclesiastical, to offend militant atheists, and to disturb complacent...
A study in the journal Neuron reports that researchers might have found the neural basis of spirituality in the brain's posterior parietal region.
This is great stuff, with all kinds of potential to inspire righteous anger in the ecclesiastical, to offend militant atheists, and to disturb complacent agnostics.
Let's see what kind of trouble our colleagues got into...
Ewen Callaway of The New Scientist avoided getting into any trouble whatever with a tepid lede that said "Increased feelings of transcendence can follow brain damage." Feelings of transcendence can follow getting a...
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