Science Discovers A Clear and Present Spiritual Danger: Too Damned much “Cognitive Inhibition”. So, the practical take-away from this research is that skeptics here suffer from “Cognitive Inhibition”. Too damned much “Cognitive Inhibition” evidently is a very sad state of diagnosis frequently leading to spiritual depression such like we see expressed so often on FFL. More research is needed on this condition to be able to protect people from the deleterious effects of this dangerous state in their spiritual lives. "A recent issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (via BPS Research Digest) suggests that skeptics possess greater powers of cognitive inhibition. Our brains evidently infer greater meaning from random events in an instinctual way. "Cognitive inhibition, that is, suppressing or overriding spontaneously occurring mental processes, may thus be the mechanism that, when working efficiently, controls our natural intuitions and explains why supernatural interpretations seem so natural for some people and yet others find them quite strange," There are caveats involved. In this case, since creativity also relies on reduced cognitive inhibition (introducing the mind to new ideas), it's possible that believer brain activity was just the creative process in motion. A larger lingering question is why (and how) people can shift from believer to skeptic and back." -Buck, a meditator outstanding in his field.
To FFL, Turquoiseb posts: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
