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neuroscience

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    Has evolution wired us for sin?

    The Neuroscience of the Seven Deadly Sins - Brain researchers are finding the sources of our nastiest temptations. Why does being bad feel so good? The most enjoyable sins engage the brain’s reward circuitry, including evolutionarily ancient regions such as the nucleus accumbens and...
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    Has evolution wired us for sin?

    The Neuroscience of the Seven Deadly Sins - Brain researchers are finding the sources of our nastiest temptations. Why does being bad feel so good? The most enjoyable sins engage the brain’s reward circuitry, including evolutionarily ancient regions such as the nucleus accumbens and...
  3. Tara PenguinX

    What are the Dynamics between Neuroscience & Biblical Gender/Sexuality

    Could some's same-sex attraction stem from them being made for masculine-women/feminine-men, of body &/or of mind (neuroscience of MBTI/Enneagram/etc.)? and what does that mean for those dispositioned to same-sex intimacies (anal for men/clitoral only for women/etc.) since sex is in-part to...
  4. gaara4158

    The superfluousness of souls

    Some religions accepting a form of dualism say that man is two parts: body and soul. But is that really true? Virtually everything (and I say virtually because I just don’t know how complete the research currently is) we do and experience has been shown to be made possible by specific functions...
  5. 2PhiloVoid

    A philosophical accounting of "Satan's little helpers" (i.e. Marketers)

    I'll just state it up front: This thread is about the primed (and provocative) philosophy that informs both historically and presently the fields of marketing and advertising. What follows is a TED talk video with Sean Dromgoole, and he speaks about the whys and wherefores of how marketers...
  6. SummerMadness

    Scientists struggle with sexism and racism: 'We think these bias studies don't apply to us'

    Scientists struggle with sexism and racism: 'We think these bias studies don't apply to us'