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These are the subject:

1) Does Neuroscience Refute Free Will?

2) The unsolved mystery of healing

3) Soy Milk May be Tied to Infant Deaths

- Hear the week thought written by W. Clement Stone

 

 

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Does Neuroscience Refute Free Will?

 

          This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. --William Shakespeare

 

In the above quote from King Lear we find a description of those who, throughout human history, deny free will and personal responsibility, instead blaming their wrongdoings on interventions divine and planetary. In a recent article, Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen join the believers in the "divine thrusting on." This being the scientific age, and our authors being card-carrying neuroscientists, the divine thrusting on becomes a neuroscientific thrusting on, the brain playing the role of the stars above.

 

Greene and Cohen argue that our brains are responsible for all our behaviors. Our "brains" commit crimes. "We" are innocent. Thus, in their words, "demonstrating that there is a brain basis for adolescents' misdeeds allows us to blame adolescents' brains instead of the adolescents themselves." It is fortunate that the boys in the neighborhood have not read their article, for here is their new defense after damaging your property: I didn't do it, it was my brain!

 

Although it has been known even before Plato that the brain plays a central role in behavior, this particular argument is rather novel. One reason others have not been bold enough to advance it (despite a perennially strong demand for determinism) is that it contains a glaring category error. Greene and Cohen compare two opposing sources of agency — either your brain or you — as if they are mutually exclusive, as if without your brain you would still be a moral agent.

 

As a result of this error, Greene and Cohen conclude, "the idea of distinguishing the truly, deeply guilty from those who are merely victims of neuronal circumstances will, we submit, seem pointless."

 

But the moral agent in the legal sense is the whole package — you consisting of your brain and the rest. To say that we are victims of neuronal circumstances is to say that we are victims of ourselves. The underlying assumption is that we have no control over "neuronal circumstances," just as we have no control over "external circumstances." But this assumption (a newly bottled behaviorist assumption) entirely contradicts our knowledge that the brain is a self-organizing and self-regulating biological system, not merely a step in the transformation of some external stimulus to behavioral output.

 

It is, however, not necessary to discuss in any detail the brain as a control system in order to refute Greene and Cohen, for their argument is not based on any understanding of the brain at all. It boils down to the primitive logic that, for example, if I stole your wallet then my hand is to be chopped off.

 

http://www.mises.org/story/1943#fn1

 

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THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF HEALING


          
Distant healing : Healing mediated by nonlocal mind.

          I grew up on a farm and worked in fields, played sports on fields, entered the field of medicine, served on battlefields, and I field questions following lectures. For me, as for everyone else, "field" is connected with a rich variety of experiences and meanings. It is no wonder, therefore, that the term is used differently, even by experts.

         In 2003, authorities in medicine, nursing, psychology, physics, engineering, mathematics, anthropology, and biology were convened by the Samueli Institute for Information Biology and tasked with developing definitions and standards in healing research. After a great deal of discussion and feedback, consensus was reached on terms that are relevant to healing, which included the following:

          FIELD: A force that can cause action at a distance.

          FORCE: The cause, or agent, that puts an object at rest into motion or alters the motion of a moving object. All presently known interactions are believed to occur as a result of four fundamental forces: the strong and weak nuclear, the electromagnetic, and the gravitational.

          As these definitions reveal, fields are related to forces, distance, and space. Do they help us understand healing? Well, yes and no. It all depends on the type of healing we are talking about

          I find it useful to divide the progress of medicine into three overlapping, nonexclusive phases using a quasihistorical template. This approach begins arbitrarily at the time the practice of medicine in the United States first began to be scientific, which was roughly the decade of the 1860s. I designate this as Era I or mechanical medicine. Examples of Era I therapies include surgery, pharmaceuticals, or any other physical thing. Roughly a century later we saw the advent of Era II or mind-body medicine in the post-WWII period. Era II medicine acknowledges the effects of one's mind on one's own body. Examples of Era II therapies include relaxation techniques, meditation, mental imagery, and hypnosis. During the last two decades of the 20th century, Era III or nonlocal medicine began to take shape. This approach embodied the key concept that one's intentions can affect another individual at a distance, beyond the range of the senses, even when the distant individual may be unaware of such an effort. Examples of Era III therapies are distant healing methods of all types, including intercessory prayer, which have been tested in several controlled clinical trials. Fields and forces help us understand Era I (mechanical) and Era II (mind-body) healing, but, I believe, are inadequate explanations for Era III (nonlocal) forms of healing. Let's see why.

          "The street meaning of "nonlocal" is, literally, not local. If something is nonlocal, it is not localized or confined to a specific place in space or time. In this sense, then, "nonlocal" is simply a fancy word for "infinite."

          Studies in remote healing overwhelmingly suggest that distance does not matter; it is as effective from the other side of the Earth as at the bedside, and does not get weaker with increasing separation of the healer from the individual being healed. If this type of healing were mediated by recognized types of energy, this would not be the case, because they would diminish in strength with increasing spatial separation. Moreover, evidence suggests that nonlocal healing events may be time-displaced, acting into the past or future.

          New concepts are required to capture Era III healing, and I believe the term that works best is nonlocal healing, mediated by nonlocal mind.

          Nonlocality is an accepted concept in quantum physics; I realize it is more uplifting to dwell on what we know than on our ignorance. But to say "I don't know" is an exercise in nonattachment and can be a liberating step toward new understanding. In the history of medicine, we have often known that something works before we had a clue how. Sometimes the explanation comes later, or perhaps not at all. In the meantime, awe and wonder remain okay.

          But two things we do know: Healing happens, and consciousness is involved. That is reason for unspeakable gratitude.

http://shiftinaction.com/node/112

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Soy Milk May be Tied to Infant Deaths

 

Although the autopsy is inconclusive and tests on the food are not yet complete, a porridge made of EdenSoy Extra soy milk and cornmeal may be responsible for the deaths of two infant brothers living in Brooklyn.

When their mother attempted to wake them, shortly after noon, she found they were unconscious and took them to the hospital. Both were pronounced dead on arrival.

Initial thoughts were that the twins had been overcome by a gas leak, but tests showed no leak.

Because medical examiners also found no evidence of choking as a result of consuming the food, or any signs of foul play, the police instead began focusing on what the infants had eaten. The police cleaned out two nearby supermarkets of EdenSoy milk and cornmeal for testing.

 

New York Times October 21, 2005

NYNewsDay.com October 22, 2005

 

 

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