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News Flash: Distant Strangers Talking to Themselves Fail to Save Lives

Monday, July 18th, 2005

I just read a Washington Post article (which I found out about at God is for Suckers!) about a new study on the healing power of prayer. Guess what. It doesn’t work.

The study of more than 700 heart patients, one of the most ambitious attempts to test the medicinal power of […]

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Unconscious Greeks

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

At the suggestion of a reader (jdt), I’ve been reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (1976). I’m not even 100 pages in, but there’s already enough material to make for a good post.
Jaynes starts out with a discussion of what exactly consciousness is. At […]

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