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Originally posted by Ramrod
I know, but Russ said that it had never been done.
It has happened to thousands of people. Either God is manifesting his presence on que, or there is more than one explanation for the phenomenon.
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Moving legs are easy. Stimulate the motor cortex in the left hemisphere, and something will move on the right part of your body. This is also quite easy to establish objectively. Plus we understand the motor system fairly well, so behaviour is as predicted.
When it comes to religious experiences, how do you objectively establish that someone has a 'religious experience'.
Then there is the issue of cause and effect, which is quite thorny.
I don't think enough is known about emotion (let alone religion) with respect to the brain's workings, to draw any meaningful conclusions from these experiments.