发信人: adamant (笨猫杀手), 信区: Biology
标 题: A thinking mind cannot feel. [email 转载]
发信站: The unknown SPACE (Sat Feb 19 18:13:25 2000), 转信


此文的研究结果看起来很符合常识, 但经验告诉我们常识常常是错误的,
此文很容易让人问起一个问题就是 brain 的并行处理能力到底有多大?

Dear List Owner / Moderator,
Kindly share the following Brain Imaging experiment with the list
members.

A thinking mind cannot feel.
A thinking mind cannot intensify / sustain any emotion.

Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual ( and verbal )
processing slows down ( stops / freezes ).

Experiment:

Subjects (preferably actors specialising in tragedy / tragic roles )
will be asked to watch a silent video film showing any of the
following:-

(1) Human suffering.
(2) Animal suffering.
(3) Suffering ( Destruction ) of Air / Water / Land / Trees.

Subjects will be asked to intensify and sustain the subjective feeling
of empathy for the sufferer.
Their brains shall be scanned by Brain Imaging Machines ( PET / FMRI ).

The silent video film will be shown at different speeds :
(1) 125% of actual speed.
(2) Actual/real speed.
(3) 75% of actual speed.
(4) 50% of actual speed.
(5) 25% of actual speed.

Two kinds of neural activity will take place :
(A) Neural activity associated with visual processing.
(B) Neural activity associated with subjective feeling of emotion (
empathy )

Results :

(1) Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in rate of visual
processing.
(2) Intensity of emotion is maximum when rate of visual processing is
minimum ( 25 % of actual speed ).

In the 2nd stage of experiment we shall replace the silent video film
with an Audio tape and repeat the procedure thereby establishing the
link between intensity of emotion and rate of verbal processing.

Kindly share this message with people who could help in getting the
experiment conducted in a Neuroscience laboratory.

Sushil Yadav
Delhi, India
www.netshooter.com/emotion
www.netshooter.com/emotion

Please note:
(1) If the co-relation is wrong it will be proved wrong experimentally
and the matter will end there.
(2) A thinking mind cannot feel.
While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is
particularly true for all painful emotions.

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