This Magnet Can Change Your Faith in God
Nov 6, 2015 17:36:15 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Nov 6, 2015 17:36:15 GMT -6
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The implications of this are somewhat scary when you think of the testing our government is known for in the past. It makes me wonder what testing has been done a secret levels in terms of frequency and power to manipulate the mind. This very much reminds me of the manchurian candidate, if they can make you fearless and convince you to assassinate a target then viola'. Common sense tells me it's the fear factor that has to be overcome.
"To do this, researchers from Britain’s University of York teamed up with UCLA to find 39 politically moderate college undergraduates who were divided into two groups. The first was given a “love-level sham” dose of TMS that had no effect on their brains. The second got a hit of magnetic energy strong enough to temporarily shut down their posterior medial frontal cortex. The pMFC, as this area near the forehead is known, is the part of the brain that identifies problems and—after measuring the level of threat—generates a response to them.
Testing the effect of shutting down the part of the brain that forms judgments based on threats required first presenting threats. After receiving their respective doses of TMS, participants were asked to respond to questions about their own death. Previous studies have shown the threat of death is capable of directly affecting a person’s belief in religion. Therefore, shutting down the part of the brain that registers this threat—they theorized—would reduce the need to believe in God.
A similar model was used to test group prejudice. Participants were given two letters written by immigrants—one that commended the U.S., another that criticized it. The text was borrowed from a study in which the negative example was shown to “intensify ethnocentric bias.” Much like the religion model, researchers hypothesized that the group with a temporarily suspended pMFC would be less influenced by the threat of the negative letter, and thus less critical of that immigrant.
In both cases, their predictions rang true. In the participants whose pMFC was temporarily shut down, 32.8 percent fewer expressed belief in God, angels, or heaven. Some 28.5 percent more displayed a positive response toward the immigrant who was critical of America, compared with the control group."
If this isn't a left wing progressive college idea nothing is. If we can't convince you that God isn't real and Illegal Aliens are good then we will just zap your brain and you will think everything's just peachy. Isn't there anyone watching these people? Why isn't bothered by this? Isn't there some sort of ethics panel somewhere in the education system that disapproves of this?
What implications does this have with a population's exposure to a EMP? Would not only the lights go out but would an immediate invasion be met with calm and cooperation? This sort of thing is what scares me about technology and it's abuse. To think a single event could wipe out the power grid and make the populous happy about it is a wild idea, let alone making people forget their love of God and their acceptance of illegals ar or immigrants.
"When researchers used magnetic energy to shut down the brain’s threat perception, nearly a third of patients were more tolerant to immigrants. More said they didn’t believe in God.
"That’s the question researchers sought to explore in a study published Wednesday in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. The “magnetic energy” comes in the form of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive procedure that uses a metal coil to send pulses to the brain. By activating certain regions of the brain, doctors have used it for things like measuring the damage of a stroke or—increasingly—treating depression. These researchers sought to do the opposite—to temporarily disable one part of the brain (the part that responds to threats) and measure its effect on beliefs and prejudices connected to them."
"That’s the question researchers sought to explore in a study published Wednesday in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. The “magnetic energy” comes in the form of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive procedure that uses a metal coil to send pulses to the brain. By activating certain regions of the brain, doctors have used it for things like measuring the damage of a stroke or—increasingly—treating depression. These researchers sought to do the opposite—to temporarily disable one part of the brain (the part that responds to threats) and measure its effect on beliefs and prejudices connected to them."
The implications of this are somewhat scary when you think of the testing our government is known for in the past. It makes me wonder what testing has been done a secret levels in terms of frequency and power to manipulate the mind. This very much reminds me of the manchurian candidate, if they can make you fearless and convince you to assassinate a target then viola'. Common sense tells me it's the fear factor that has to be overcome.
"To do this, researchers from Britain’s University of York teamed up with UCLA to find 39 politically moderate college undergraduates who were divided into two groups. The first was given a “love-level sham” dose of TMS that had no effect on their brains. The second got a hit of magnetic energy strong enough to temporarily shut down their posterior medial frontal cortex. The pMFC, as this area near the forehead is known, is the part of the brain that identifies problems and—after measuring the level of threat—generates a response to them.
Testing the effect of shutting down the part of the brain that forms judgments based on threats required first presenting threats. After receiving their respective doses of TMS, participants were asked to respond to questions about their own death. Previous studies have shown the threat of death is capable of directly affecting a person’s belief in religion. Therefore, shutting down the part of the brain that registers this threat—they theorized—would reduce the need to believe in God.
A similar model was used to test group prejudice. Participants were given two letters written by immigrants—one that commended the U.S., another that criticized it. The text was borrowed from a study in which the negative example was shown to “intensify ethnocentric bias.” Much like the religion model, researchers hypothesized that the group with a temporarily suspended pMFC would be less influenced by the threat of the negative letter, and thus less critical of that immigrant.
In both cases, their predictions rang true. In the participants whose pMFC was temporarily shut down, 32.8 percent fewer expressed belief in God, angels, or heaven. Some 28.5 percent more displayed a positive response toward the immigrant who was critical of America, compared with the control group."
If this isn't a left wing progressive college idea nothing is. If we can't convince you that God isn't real and Illegal Aliens are good then we will just zap your brain and you will think everything's just peachy. Isn't there anyone watching these people? Why isn't bothered by this? Isn't there some sort of ethics panel somewhere in the education system that disapproves of this?
What implications does this have with a population's exposure to a EMP? Would not only the lights go out but would an immediate invasion be met with calm and cooperation? This sort of thing is what scares me about technology and it's abuse. To think a single event could wipe out the power grid and make the populous happy about it is a wild idea, let alone making people forget their love of God and their acceptance of illegals ar or immigrants.
He had a pretty wild-ryrd look, too! Many years after his conviction, he claimed to have been 'mind controlled' and was compelled by some 'force' to commit the shooting.
