Submitted By: Anonymous on 2007-11-02
About the video: Atheists Talk cable program by Minnesota Atheists.

"There Are No Ghosts in Your Brain - PZ Myers - Part 1" recorded 7/22/2007

"There Are No Ghosts in Your Brain: Materialist Explanations for the Mind and Religious Belief"

P.Z. Myers, biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris, host of the website Pharyngula( http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ ), and indefatigable defender of evolution, shares his expertise and insights on brain function, explaining how research into the brain reveals the evolutionary causes of religious belief.

In P.Z. Myers's own words:

"We've made great strides in the past century towards understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive brain function, and I will briefly present an overview of some of the major conclusions of that work. In short, though, what we have are sophisticated molecular regulators and sensors and effectors and modulators that generate patterned impulses in pathways throughout the brain, and the mind is ultimately reducible to highly organized chemistry

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