Monday, May 5, 2008

Brain Research

This just showed up in my mailbox from Sam Harris. I think it is an
interesting study and I have read about it elsewhere. Sam is a
neuroscientist with either a PhD or MD or both. I met him when
I was working on an Event here in Boulder at which he was the
prime speaker. He's an interesting person. I plan on adding
my input to his study. Maybe you will, too??

Research Volunteers Needed
We are preparing to run another
fMRI study of belief and disbelief,
and we need volunteers to help
us refine our experimental stimuli.
This promises to be the first study
of religious faith at the level of the
brain. By responding to the four
surveys I have posted online,
you can make an enormous
contribution to this work.


You'll find links to these surveys on my home page.

Please answer as many of the surveys as you can.
If you only have time to answer one, please choose
at random (otherwise, we will have many more
responses to the first than to the others).

Feel free to post this message to your blog or to
forward the relevant links to your friends. I especially
need Christians to respond, as one of the goals of
these surveys is to design stimuli that a majority of
Christians will find doctrinally sound.

I will, of course, pass along the results of this work
the moment I have something to report.

Many thanks for your help.

All the best,

Sam

www.samharris.org



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