Phrenology took painstaking measurements too, must be legit!

Now that we have a new Cosmos, I'd like to see a remake of Connections

The 'clicking' is known as a Gestalt Shift. Part of the idea is that although you may be aware of both the parrot and the model you can't see both at the same time. When both images are equally real your mind can flip back and forth between them. In this case, once you see the model and the un-parrot like parts (her…

I'd imagine he'd look a lot like Jerry, but he'd have picked up on some of Rick's fantastic abilities. Look for "The Adventures of Adult Morty" in 100 years.

I was just about to say this. He is an ass, and she is really just the worst kind of bottom of the barrel, "edgy" comedian who isn't really funny.

There is no one to root for in this scenario.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts..." - Shakespeare

A few things: The writers don't have Sagan's touch or style to create memorable lines. Having commercials interrupt the flow says a lot about who our "masters" are in this age. Being on FOX, is a bad thing in the long run. If it was on PBS, it would reach a larger audience by repeated showings (often during pledge…

I know I'm in the minority, but I don't find Dan Harmon funny, nor this idea of ANOTHER D&D movie that laughs at my favorite hobby as something that needs to be made. Before we make another comedy at how "ridiculous" D&D is, let's try one that shows the epic story-telling that is too often overlooked.

Out of my own experience about 15 yrs ago (the one and only time ever and trust me, that was enough!) I strongly believe OBE have nothing to do with hallucinations in the brain or being remotely similar to synesthesia.

This is just about what I was going to say. Seeing what part of the brain is being used does nothing to prove or disprove the activity of the person which is not being recorded, such as the thoughts themselves, or the presence or non-presence of a spiritual/soul entity.

Their are hundreds of examples where people have died in hospitals and then seen things going on in other rooms on other floors. They have been able to repeat these events after flat lining and coming back to consciousness. It is far beyond 1 or 2 the coincidences of these memories and the details of this is too much…

I've had experiences that consider to be hallucinatory and ones I consider to be religious. While this research is fascinating to me, I think it shows more about what we don't know about the mind than what we do. Assertions like "no paranormal activity of any kind" are a bit broad—after all, isn't wireless…

Yeah this does not prove anything what so ever. There are tons of OBE'S and near death experiences reported where the individual was actually able to describe what was going on in an operating room in great detail. How does this explain that? Or OBE'S where the person is able to describe seeing something that could…

"But that doesn't mean that her "soul" is getting out of her body. This is not an astral trip, like those described by mystics. There's no paranormal activity of any kind."

The fact that the brain changes its activity does not necessarily mean that it makes the experience happens.
It could also mean that the brain adapts in order to perceive the experience or just register it in the memory.

Let me start off by saying I am not religious, but i do believe there is something after death. This study has been done before but at a different. It's called the God Helmet [Link] Wikipedia. I have been able to leave my body at one point. I was able to see everything around me though while my body was in bed. I…

Yeah, this. The notion that brain-scans 'explain' anything except for the fact of there being activity in various parts of the brain drives me nuts.

Count me as in the minority it might seem, it really bothers me that Dean killed that guy. I don 't want to start a fuss ,but that was really cold blooded ,they kill real people now ,so easily ?