tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6006622137752807559.post6525225563973903190..comments2023-01-20T21:35:48.301-08:00Comments on Neuroscience and Psi: Dementia & PsiSheila Joshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01789487768317341942noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6006622137752807559.post-41581282503129652332013-05-06T11:22:24.244-07:002013-05-06T11:22:24.244-07:00Thanks for your comment. The filter / reducing va...Thanks for your comment. The filter / reducing valve / transceiver meme and your very well-put summary have some truth to them, but I just don't think that's the whole story. I think there may be more than one thing going on.<br /><br />For example, consider the people who, upon autopsy, have heads full of cerebral spinal fluid, and very little brain, yet who had lived normal lives.<br /><br />http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/is_the_brain_really_necessary.htm<br /><br />Also, it seems likely that other parts of the body are involved in psi, like the enteric brain and the chakras, but that could still fit in the overall tranceiver meme.<br /><br />The filter model just seems to imply a signal-transfer theory of psi, and that may be part of what goes on, but the field theories and quantum theories are very promising, too, and they don't seem to me to fit so tidily into a filter model.<br /><br />And, I totally agree that psychological and neurological distortion happen, but often there is veridicality mixed in, too, and it's worthwhile to look for it. It's often not as clear-cut as you would have it.Sheila Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789487768317341942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6006622137752807559.post-78741960043286507612013-05-06T07:35:44.503-07:002013-05-06T07:35:44.503-07:00The way in which dementia produces psi can be expl...The way in which dementia produces psi can be explained by the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/chs4o8pt/skeptical_fallacies#skeptical_fallacies_brain" rel="nofollow">filter model of the brain</a> in a way that is similar to <a href="http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2012/06/acquired-savant-syndrome.html" rel="nofollow">acquired savant syndrome</a>.<br /><br />You don't have to explain every aspect of dementia as a form of psi. Some brain damage acts like a clog in the filter and you get a malfunction (hallucinations) while other damage can act like a hole in the fliter allowing new functions to come through (seeing spirits and other forms of psi). You can identify psi because it produces veridical information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com