This is worth a read

An extract from a book I'm reading now about Neuroscience, specifically the Neural Pathwayss:


"An[other] experiment, conducted by Pascual-Leone when he was a researcher at the National Institute of Health, provides even more remarkable evidence of the way our patterns of thought affect the anatomy of our brains.

PL recruited people who had no experience playing a piano, and he taught them how to play a simple melody consisting of a short series of notes. He then split them into two focus groups. He had the members of one group practice for two hours a day over the next five days.

He had the members of the other group sit in front of a keyboard for the same amount of time but only imagine playing the song-- without ever touching the keys. Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, PL mapped the brain activity of all participants before, during and after the test.

He found that the people who had only imagined playing the notes exhibited precisely the same changes in their brains as those who had actually pressed the keys. Their brains had changed in response to actions that took place purely in their imagination - in response, that is, to their thoughts.

Descartes may have been wrong about dualism, but he appears to have been correct in believing that our thoughts can exert a physcial inffluence on, or at least cause a physical reaction in, our brains.

We become neurologically, what we think."

#BOSSMIND