Neuroscience | Psyops Prime https://psyopsprime.com An Idea Log Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:23:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 99640787 Neural Correlates of Belief https://psyopsprime.com/consciousness/neural-correlates-of-belief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=neural-correlates-of-belief https://psyopsprime.com/consciousness/neural-correlates-of-belief/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:23:54 +0000 http://psyopsprime.com/?p=1957 We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research

The post Neural Correlates of Belief first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research article that recently got published in a nice conference. It is a work in progress. So if you find it interesting and want to work on it, please give me a shout. We could think about something interesting to work on.

Neural Correlates of Belief – IEEE Conference Publication

Much of the degeneration of the human condition is attributed to religion. As we move in the midst of the twenty first century, enjoying the cornucopia len

 

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The post Of Thought Experiments first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> I was surfing the web. Initially, it was just random, Brownian surfing. Then I thought about surfing with a purpose. I thought what should I surf the web for? Then I thought about surfing the web for thought experiments. I found this brilliant read on the website of Stanford university. I hope that you would like to give it a read.

Thought Experiments

Thought experiments are basically devices of the imagination. They are employed for various purposes such an entertainment, education, conceptual analysis, exploration, hypothesizing, theory selection, theory implementation, etc. Some applications are more controversial than others. Few would object to thought experiments that serve to illustrate complex states of affairs, or those that are used in educational contexts.

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