Subject: Sincere Delusions Only.

From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2001 10:36 PM
Message-ID: <3BF09542.CFB66E19@irtc.net>

"Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine have found that telling a lie and telling
the truth require different activities in the human
brain.

"The findings will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 13, at
the national meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
in San Diego, CA. By identifying the brain activity
associated with deception and denial, the work paves
the way for improvements in lie-detection techniques.

"... In the study, Landgleben and his colleagues
used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
to track brain activity in 18 volunteers who were
subjected to an interrogation method known as the
Guilty Knowledge Test."

Full Story at:
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20011011201455data_trunc_sys.shtml
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Subject: Re: Sincere Delusions Only.
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

So many holes in research like this.

So many people equivocate, or qualify, or fantasize, or are
ignorant, or rationalize, or have any number of unscientific
memory/analysis processes in their heads that makes this a
futile exercise.

1) Equivocation: "It depends on what the definition of the
word 'is' is." (If you had phrased the question properly or
interpreted it my way, it would have been true.)

2) Qualification: "It has to be true if such and such."

3) Fantasies: "On my planet, it is true."

4) Ignorance: "They imply it's true, so it must be. I'm not
lying, I just don't know."

5) Rationalization: "I can imagine a circumstance where it
would be true."

6) Memory: "I remember it as being true."

7) Analysis: "All its parts are true, therefore it's true."

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"No one is safe." -- nu-monet
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