Sunday, 5 February 2012

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however good, could conceivably be good for ever"Mencken

///////////////When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however good, could conceivably be good for ever"-Mencken


///////////////agreeable work-domestic affections-cosmic awe/curiosity


///////////////Background is not everything – we are not prisoners of our past


////////////////.......And we hardly think of love as the emergent property of the brain chemical oxytocin. Still, when it comes to human motivation, Churchland says: "There is only the brain."



////////////////...........In a study of humans playing a cooperative game involving money, researchers recently discovered that they could make subjects more generous by spraying the hormone oxytocin into their noses.



//////////////........Paul Zak, a neuro-economist at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, concluded that oxyto-cin makes people more trusting and essentially creates "the feeling of right and wrong" in the brain. Zak is writing a book called The Moral Molecule.



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