Stephan: From my own research, and everything I had read in the academic literature, over 15 years ago I became convinced that what I have called the psychophysics of politics was what the Republican Party had decided to use to create their base. I got to this by watching what the oligarchs, like the Koch brothers, who control the MAGAt cult had been funding in science. This is how Trump and his orcs, and the oligarchs created MAGAt world. At one level it was very smart, in terms to protecting and advancing democracy it was evil. (Go to the SR archives and search on the Psychophysiology of Politics, or click through to the citation listed here, and read the paper on which this report is based. Citation: Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28392301/
President Donald Trump joins Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, Louise Gorsuch, and others in prayer in the Green Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., following the President’s announcement of Judge Gorsuch as his nominee to the Supreme Court, Tuesday January 31, 2017. Credit: Official White House / Shealah Craighead
A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest that damage to particular areas of the prefrontal cortex indirectly promotes religious fundamentalism by diminishing cognitive flexibility and openness—a psychology term that describes a personality trait which involves dimensions like curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness.
Religious beliefs can be thought of as socially transmitted mental representations that consist of supernatural events and entities assumed to be real. Religious beliefs differ from empirical beliefs, which are based on how the world appears to be and are updated as new evidence accumulates or when new theories with better predictive power emerge. On the other hand, religious beliefs are […]
If there is really going to be a decent study there would need to be a pre/post measure of religious fundamentalisms and if religious fundamentalism increased following frontal cortex brain injury, you can then discuss causality. Otherwise we are restricted to correlation only.
Wilma Bodrak
on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 11:33 am
Might explain a lot!
Rev. Dean
on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 6:16 pm
There is actually much more electrical activity in the heart than there is in the brain. That’s why the Beatles sone “Love is all there is” is so important to me. Love comes from the heart and has a great effect upon the brain’s activity.
Rev. Dean
on Friday, July 29, 2022 at 2:06 pm
P.S.: that should have said Beatles song, not sone, sorry.
If there is really going to be a decent study there would need to be a pre/post measure of religious fundamentalisms and if religious fundamentalism increased following frontal cortex brain injury, you can then discuss causality. Otherwise we are restricted to correlation only.
Might explain a lot!
There is actually much more electrical activity in the heart than there is in the brain. That’s why the Beatles sone “Love is all there is” is so important to me. Love comes from the heart and has a great effect upon the brain’s activity.
P.S.: that should have said Beatles song, not sone, sorry.