spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
hey guys check this out : http://www.deepplanet.com/articles.asp?ArticleID=52&SectionID=4 scientists maybe finding out for themselves that the heart is more than a pump ------------------ Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. |
blendenzo Junior Member Posts: 9 From: MI, USA Registered: 11-25-2007 |
Wow... that was an interesting article. I'm not convinced that the evidence of heart and brain interaction was really properly applied, but it certainly is compelling to see these newly discovered layers of functionality. It really goes to show you that science has not even begun to understand the everyday complexities of creation. On a side note, I found that site's purpose of "co-creating conscious evolution" to be a bit out of touch with reality. Their rotating globe banner image is really nice and smooth, though. (If you watch closely, you'll see that the globe is really flat... might have turned out better if they would have UV mapped it to a sphere and rendered an animation of it.) ------------------ (Find Blender Game Engine tutorials at blendenzo.com.) |
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spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
i didn't see that part of the site ------------------ Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. |
TallBill Member Posts: 298 From: St. Louis, MO Registered: 11-22-2002 |
I'd be careful of that. It sounds very "New Age" to me. I kept waiting for the pagan rituals to start up in the background.  ------------------ “...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer—pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart—all broken and cast down—is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High.” |
steveth45 Member Posts: 536 From: Eugene, OR, USA Registered: 08-10-2005 |
It all sounded fine to me, until I realized that it was just an advertisement for snake oil. One thing we do know is that the heart creates its own signals to make the heart beat regularly. It's more like an adjustable metronome than a brain. It is curious how emotional responses affect the heart beat, though, but I'm pretty sure those emotions exist in your brain, and the heart responds to signals to raise or lower your heart rate. BTW, the stomach used to be the organ people associated with feelings--just because it digest food without much input from our brain (and let's you know when it is empty) doesn't mean it's thinking either. Real science has definitively placed emotions, feelings, etc, in the brain. It's not rocket science, it's just neurobiology. ------------------ |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
whoa whoa whoa. whoa. This is all about the fact that the heart can pump even with signals from the brain? Somebody should tell Gabrielle Boehmer to pick up a high school anatomy book. I half expected them to bust out talk on "negative emotions" and "chi." ------------------ |
supercoder Member Posts: 37 From: Registered: 08-20-2007 |
i remember reading somewhere how adding heart muscle cells to a petri dish solution where other heart muscle cells are pulsing, will cause the newly added cells to pulse in syncronicity, but even though beheadings are grusome, its probably a good thing that our heart doesnt keep things going...a bunch of headless ppl running around could cause problems. ------------------ |
Ereon Member Posts: 1018 From: Ohio, United States Registered: 04-12-2005 |
Hrm....I'm a bit skeptical about this as well. A study done some time in the 1970s combined with a single obscure supporting study (obscure in the sense that I've certainly never heard of it or seen it refrenced anywhere). Heart/brain coherence as they refer to it is a rather odd term and I don't see how a noticeably weaker "brain" like the one in the heart could overcome to the larger, more powerful and wide ranging one in the head. I don't see how they support their view that the correlation is involved with the heart affecting the emotions instead of the other way around. This claim will require a lot more support than a simple, short three page article on some already noticably wonky new-age looking site to convince me of its truth and relevance. ------------------ |
