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TLDR: the fMRI brain image lights up a bit more when the person encounters something unexpected. Yet another stunner from "neuroscience" using up thousands of d
by TaupeRanger 4y ago
TLDR: the fMRI brain image lights up a bit more when the person encounters something unexpected. Yet another stunner from "neuroscience" using up thousands of dollars of funding to tell us something we either already knew, or that is entirely irrelevant.
- kristiandupont 4y agoThe reason why it can be valuable to research common sense is that every now and then, we discover that common sense is in fact wrong. Those are the discoveries that lead to paradigm shifts.
- TaupeRanger 4y agoWhen the common sense is just a truism, it can't lead to paradigm shifts, by definition, because it's a truism. "Something different happens in the brain when unexpected things happen" is common sense in this case. Seeing a picture of the difference in an fMRI machine (for the 100th time over several decades) doesn't add anything to our understanding, wastes money that could be better spent elsewhere, and wastes valuable time.