cricket

We've talked before about how some brains may be wired for reliosity and others, not. For example, when we discussed the work of VS Ramachandran. Some of us seem to be born skeptical and others seem to be born credulous.

But what about a sudden change, from one way to the other? Maybe even a chemically-induced change?

I'm reading Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin.

She says she lost her religious faith after swimming across a dip vat!

A dip vat is a pool of insecticide at slaughterhouses. Cattle are led to swim through it so they are disinfected and de-loused. Temple Grandin swam through it as a publicity stunt. (She's the autistic woman who is said to be so in tune w/ animals -- what calms them; what frightens them. At times she does so by getting a "cow's eye view" of their world -- such as going through cattle chutes herself to see what makes them balk.)

I'll tell more if there's more to tell, later in the book. I don't know yet if her religious faith returns or if it's gone forever; zapped by her immersion in the dip vat.

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I'm intrigued.

Cthulhu

Interesting...and certainly worthy of experimentation.

Perhaps toxic waste would work even better than insecticide.

Radorth, care to take a dip?