May 15, 2009

Space Zen: Will Humans' Brains Change During Travel in Outer Space?
posted by homunculus 14 years ago
  • Ah! So this is where the confusion about Linkin Park and Sunshine came from.
  • The article mentions Faraday cages. Obviously, this would be where the Lost folks got the name for Daniel Faraday.
  • Nope. Same brain, same operations, different perspective. It's shown that this information at this deep level, at the quantum level, can transcend electromagnetic theory Nonsense.
  • What they experienced was unalloyed awesomeness.
  • This story was discussed on NPR last evening from the perspective of new research being done on hallucinogens, specifically the similarity between drug-induced euphoria and euphoric states attained through prayer, meditation, etc. along with the "one-ness" described by many returning astronauts. It's fascinating that the same areas of the brain are activated in all cases.