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To: epicure who wrote (168251)	8/7/2011 11:47:03 PM
From: spiral3	Read Replies (1) of 543996

There is a spot in the brain that, when stimulated, gives people religious "experiences". I think a lot of people find that kind of stimulation a "calling". And that's fine, but I think it's biochemical. Not insanity, exactly. More like hallucination- which is your own body messing with your perceptions. There is probably a spot in the brain they could stimulate to produce the craving for ice cream. Does it mean your real life craving for ice cream is a biochemical hallucination. What about other feelings like love and hate, does being able to produce these effects mean that these feelings are not real, mere illusion, just your own body messing with your perceptions. How does stimulating the brain to produce phenomena mean any of the above. For ex stimulating the brain to feel love or hate is done for experimental purposes all the time. Does identifying the neural correlates of the experience and reproducing the effect mean that your real life experience of same is just an hallucination...what's the difference.

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