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Scientists understand that stress in early childhood can create lifelong psychological troubles, but have only begun to explain how they emerge in the brain. For example, they have observed that stress incurred early in life attenuates neural growth. Now a new study with male mice exposed to stress shows that the hippocampus reaches some developmental milestones early—essentially maturing faster in …
A talk with renegade religious philosopher Michael Hoffman about entheogens, determinism, and religious experience from an engineering point of view. http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm
Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you’d never compromise for any reason – such as “I’d never hurt a child,” or “I’m against the death penalty.” Â Real-time brain scans show that when people read stories that deal with these core, protected values, the “default mode network” in their …
