• December 31st, 2008 • 19 comments
Religion, autism, empathy, self consciousness explained by neuro-science
This article blows my mind: Edge: Self-Awareness: The last Frontier, by V.S. Ramachandran.
The author explains that mirror neurons in our brain creates the sense of empathy, self-consciousness in ourselves. To the extreme, when those mirror neurons are hyperactive, we have extreme empathy, entire selfishlessness, and experience “blending” with the cosmos, thus the religious experience. To the other opposite end, autists, whose mirror neurons are deficient don’t have empathy and have no experience of self.
Drugs which can fool neurons can also change the activity of those neurons, making humans enter meditative/religious state or bluntness.
I haven’t done any neuro-science, yet I know it must be true. I also find funny Ramachandran who confesses to be an absolute skeptic and also religious devout, all at the same time.
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