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I wonder if that is related to what happens to people that wear the "god helmet". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helme

• tcc2161 12y ago
  I tend to wonder if our minds have a connection to Earth's magnetic field, perhaps using it as a sort of external hardrive at times, but if that was the case I wonder why the lunar astronauts didn't (literally) lose their minds. One of the God Helmet scientists (Michael Persinger) hinted at that in one of his lectures I saw, a coincidental synchronicity with the planet's magnetic field, almost akin to the saltiness of our blood being the same as the oceans.
  • hereonbusiness 12y ago
    The salinity of blood (1/4 saltwater) is not coincidental, vertebrates just took the ocean with them when they left it.
• gohrt 12y ago
  This sounds a lot like the theory that humans used to have more separate brain hemispheres (pre- corpus colossum), and thus had a higher prevalence of schizophrenia (messages from the right side of the brain to the left, perceived as coming from "outside the self") which was interpreted as a voice of God.
  • anigbrowl 12y ago
    Ah, bicameralism. I reposted a paper on that topic to HN a few days back that you might find interesting.
• splawn 12y ago
  Whoops. After reading my own link, I saw that the god helmet experiments have yet to be recreated. I had heard about it in a Dawkins Documentary and assumed that the science behind it was more solid than it actually is. My apologies for bringing hokeyness to this conversation.