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2014-09-15T19:05:01-04:00

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Entheogens may expand possible brain interconnections

Last updated on: September 15, 2014 at 7:05 pm By Connor Wood

By releasing the everyday patterns of stable, internal coherence between different regions of the brain, psilocybin increases entropy in the brain. But as these stable patterns weaken, new patterns are allowed to emerge. Read more

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2024-02-26T11:10:48-05:00

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Do we have free will when it comes to mental illness?

Last updated on: February 26, 2024 at 11:10 am By Connor Wood

Mental illness arises from complex interactions between the self, the social environment, and our own behaviors and habits. We can’t control others, nor (for good or ill) do we have much control over our broader social world. But to an extent, we can control our habits. And habits matter. Read more

2014-09-30T12:43:29-04:00

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Mental illness: it’s not just in our brains.

Last updated on: September 30, 2014 at 12:43 pm By Connor Wood

Our idea that mental illness just "happens" is dangerous. It's not your fault if you're depressed or need drugs to feel okay. But we're the world's most social vertebrate species. Nothing in our lives arises only from the brain outward. Read more

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2014-09-15T19:06:23-04:00

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Yes, fundamentalism is religion. And it starts wars.

Last updated on: September 15, 2014 at 7:06 pm By Connor Wood

The “no true Scotsman” fallacy is often used to claim that no real, believing Muslim could be a terrorist. But the war in northern Iraq is impossible to separate from fundamentalist Islam. Read more

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2014-08-06T21:05:29-04:00

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Believing Impossible Stuff Is Dangerous. Except When It’s Awesome.

Last updated on: August 6, 2014 at 9:05 pm By Connor Wood

What happens when all children know to only accept plain facts, and to cannily dismiss all fictions? It would be the genocide of the imagination – no one would have enough imagination to ask the outlandish questions. And we’d never learn a thing about the world. Read more

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2014-09-17T21:39:23-04:00

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Informal Study Finds Bloggers Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 9:39 pm By Connor Wood

A study shared widely in the TwitFaceBlogosphere says that religious children can't tell fact from fiction. This is why it's wrong. Read more

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2014-07-21T10:31:18-04:00

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Nerd culture, the new aristocracy

Last updated on: July 21, 2014 at 10:31 am By Connor Wood

Nerd culture is a form of aristocracy. Try mentioning that you study religion in a room full of educated techies in Cambridge; the silence that falls over the room is thick enough to swim through. Read more

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2014-07-14T13:31:41-04:00

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The Wave of the Future: Experimental Religious Studies

Last updated on: July 14, 2014 at 1:31 pm By Connor Wood

Ted Slingerland's work at UBC-Vancouver shows that the scientific study of religion has undergone a quantum leap in maturation. We can now learn from Mother Nature which of our ideas are good, which are okay but need work, and which are simply better put out with next week’s garbage pickup. Read more

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2014-12-10T23:08:03-05:00

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Is religion good or bad for the world?

Last updated on: December 10, 2014 at 11:08 pm By Connor Wood

Across studies, there’s a regular but modest positive correlation between religiosity and prosocial behavior, and a negative correlation between religion and antisocial behaviors. But these effects are weak. What does this mean for religion's place in the world? Read more

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2014-06-28T11:36:03-04:00

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How do we make meaning of evolution? By admitting its uncomfortable truths.

Last updated on: June 28, 2014 at 11:36 am By Connor Wood

the most vital trait of evolution is also its most difficult: there’s no purpose in it, no trajectory whatsoever. In evolution, things survive because they are not killed, not because they’re more noble or closer to God’s vision for how the world should be. Read more

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