Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes and God - Part 2

Neurologist Ramachandran talking about temporal lobe epilepsy and god. Part 2.
http://www.everythingispointless.com/2007/02/ramachandran-temporal-lobes-god....

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[Ramsez]

where's part 3?

[Atheist603]

damn...I love science

[1tabligh]

We can raise precisely the same objection against the atheists and ask them, "If we follow the chain of causality back, we will ultimately reach the primary cause. Let us say that cause is not God, but matter. Tell us who created primary matter. You who believe in the law of causality, answer us Ws: if matter is the ultimate cause of all things, what is the cause of matter?

You say that the source of all phenomena is matter-energy; what is the cause and origin of matter-energy?"

[yummit7]

@bluebanshee3 I think that's what schizophrenia is actually..."innate pattern-seeking gone awry" indefinitely so.

[bluebanshee3]

in schizophrenia, does everything become more emotionally salient? (strong connectivity between amygdala and temporal lobe.) and since the left temporal lobe has reduced gray matter (broca's, wernicke's, the language centers related to linear logic), are things interpreted as having connections or patterns when there are none (ex.: conspiracy theories--unrelated events are seen as having great significance.)

innate pattern-seeking gone awry...

[bluebanshee3]

right temporal: experiential, non-linear. left temporal: broca's, wernicke's, linear, language-oriented.

left temporal lobe, reduced gray matter, schizophrenia.

what about temporal lobe to amygdala, connectivity? how does it work? how would it relate to schizophrenia?

[isleofyew1]

Ah, driftwood !

[gunz543]

@pyroclasm32 there is a religious and scientific way of interpreting life, choose one.. I choose all forms of truths and grow without depriving myself of experiencing the bliss of the higher concepts of reality, by putting myself above or below my brothers and sisters ideas or perspective of truth.

[gunz543]

@pyroclasm32 and this is where the argument began. I personally understand and believe that statement to be 100% true while on the other hand understand the perspective in which man feels it necessary to put a face and name to that "structure" to better understand these scientific concepts in our daily lives and to perhaps lead the sheep in a direction of growth. I look at the golden ratio and see how it relates to man in that we have a infinite compacity to ascend consciously..

[GodsArePeopleToo]

@ReviewCam - til that episode, i only ever had petit mal (since, too). after i got out of the hospital, i had 1 gm, but still had a lot of resid effects of the seizures i'd had (which was every kind there is, ugh), including anorexia, which i knew wasn't psych. i couldn't even get help w/ that. i had some doctors argue w/ me over things like i CAN tell a lot of times when i'm having a seizure, why i hyper-ventilate, parts of my hand being numb. i seriously don't know why they're in the field.

[ReviewCam]

@GodsArePeopleToo what a wonderful comment. you conveyed everything in words I could not. I also had an extremely long TLE status epilepticus...I thought it was only with gran mal, but TLE is so scary and intense and at times blissful. Doctors didn't understand and to be honest, I don't think they cared