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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This feels just as likely to be the ramblings of a crazy person as an actual map of the human brain.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's real, but cobbled together from multiple sources. For instance we haven't referred to the "reticular activating system" since maybe the 1980s? They call it the "reticular arousal system" which is either a neologism or maybe a reactivation of the term in the literature. I haven't been active in the area in over a decade.

I'll note that this broadly accurate on a macro level, but the details really matter. There are different cortical layers for instance and cell types and the nature of the signal processing differs by layer. So saying "X connects to Y" is useful in some sense, but provides much less information than you might imagine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I also am curous about the "fear of god." Pathway. It's right next to anxiety.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you find it? The map is one massive shitpost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is actual work on that by a guy named Michael Persinger using transcranial magnetic induction. He claimed to have found a region where stimulation produced a sense of the presence/fear of God. Persinger was a hack on many levels. He used a motorcycle helmet with holes drilled in it for the induction mount. Lete see if I can find a paper...

Well never mind. The kook died a few years ago. https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/breaking-laurentian-professor-michael-persinger-most-famous-for-his-god-helmet-passes-away-1016204

He also has a wikipedia page lol. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you look at the source (link on the right edge) it's a page with religious ramblings on how this disproves evolution because our nervous system is set up like a computer or microchip. Bibles quotes and all.

The chart is a great testament to how complicated our biology is and not much else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sure your brain doesn't have a Honeywell Military Internal Navigation System in it?