Which part of brain is responsible for superstition ?
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superstition is likely related to reasoning, therfore it would be the frontal lobe and caudate nucleus
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Well it's true, a person's belief is stronger than medicine sometimes, faith can heal or injure. A person who wants to be sick will never be cured no matter how much time and money is spent, unless they get the cure they desire. After all it's literally "in your mind" and no one can get in there. They can use drugs to blur your mind, or electro-shock therapy to try "re-wiring"  it drastically, literally forcing you to think differently, the same as people recovering from strokes or major brain injuries learn to. Much of dementia is caused simply by letting our minds go. Do I believe in satanic possessions? I'm not sure, but I believe there is potential for great good or great evil in every person, it's a battle waged within us every moment, and sometimes people feel the best way to face temptation is to yield to it and then claim they are a victim, "temporary insanity", or even demonic "possession." I don't know, but I believe evil requires a human body, a physical presence, in order to have power. And it's too easy to have a cop out like saying "I can't help myself". If a person is possessed I doubt any "exorcism" could work unless they want it to. But I'd like to know if any study was ever done to see if people with no religous beliefs ever get "possessed"?
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No, this is a myth. A large part of our brain is used as proved by MRI's.
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The brain controls "lower" or involuntary activities such as heartbeat, respiration, and digestion - these are known as autonomic functions. The brain also controls "higher" order, conscious activities, such as thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The human brain is generally regarded as more capable of these higher order activities than any other species.\n\nThe human brain is thought to be the source of the conscious, cognitive mind. The mind is the set of cognitive processes related to perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories, of which a person may or may not be aware. Beyond cognitive functions, the brain regulates autonomic processes related to essential body functions such as respiration and heartbeat.\n\nExtended neocortical capacity allows humans some control over emotional behavior, but neural pathways between emotive centers of the brain stem and cerebral motor control areas are shorter than those connecting complex cognitive areas in the neocortex with incoming sensory information from the brain stem. Powerful emotional pathways can modulate spontaneous emotive expression regardless of attempts at cerebral self-control. Emotive stability in humans is associated with planning, experience, and an environment that is both stable and stimulating, especially during early developmental years.\n\nThe 19th century discovery of the primary motor cortex mapped to correspond with regions of the body led to popular belief that the brain was organized around a homunculus. A distorted figure drawn to represent the body's motor map in the prefrontal cortex was popularly recognized as the brain's homunculus, but function of the human brain is far more complex.\n\nThe human brain appears to have no localized center of conscious control. The brain seems to derive consciousness from interaction among numerous systems within the brain. Executive functions rely on cerebral activities, especially those of the frontal lobes, but redundant and complementary processes within the brain result in a diffuse assignment of executive control that can be difficult to attribute to any single locale.\n\nMidbrain functions include routing, selecting, mapping, and cataloguing information, including information perceived from the environment and information that is remembered and processed throughout the cerebral cortex. Endocrine functions housed in the midbrain play a leading role in modulating arousal of the cortex and of autonomic systems.\n\nNerves from the brain stem complex where autonomic functions are modulated join nerves routing messages to and from the cerebrum in a bundle that passes through the spinal column to related parts of a body. Twelve pairs of cranial nerves, including some that innervate parts of the head, follow pathways from the medulla oblongata outside the spinal cord.\n\nA definite description of the biological basis for consciousness so far eludes the best efforts of the current generation of researchers. But reasonable assumptions based on observable behaviors and on related internal responses have provided the basis for general classification of elements of consciousness and of likely neural regions associated with those elements. Researchers know people lose consciousness and regain it, they have identified partial losses of consciousness associated with particular neuropathologies and they know that certain conscious activities are impossible without particular neural structures.
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The cerebellum is at the back of the brain, below the cerebrum. It's a lot smaller than the cerebrum at only 1/8 of its size. But it's a very important part of the brain. It controls balance, movement, and coordination (how your muscles work together). Because of your cerebellum, you can stand upright, keep your balance, and move around.
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Superstitions are taught generation to\ngeneration. Don't walk under a ladder\nBlack cat crosses your path,the number\n13 it goes back to your upbringing.Don't\nsplit the pole(walk on one side-the other\nperson walks on the other side)My Gran-\nMother would knock you down,if you split\nthe pole while walking with her.Very\nsuperstitious wash you face & hands\n(Little stevey Wonder)
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different cultures have posited different centers of existence, i.e., are you a brain with a body, are you a gut with a bunch of other organs attached.\n\ni think in japanese religions, the focus of a body's energies is found in the lower gut. i'll venture to say western medicine focuses the conscious experience in the brain. for other religions, spirit may extend outside of the body, encompassing the environment and tied to the specific land that surrounds them.
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The cerebellum (Latin: "little brain") is a region of the brain that plays an important role in the integration of sensory perception and motor output. Many neural pathways link the cerebellum with the motor cortex—which sends information to the muscles causing them to move—and the spinocerebellar tract—which provides feedback on the position of the body in space (proprioception). The cerebellum integrates these two functions, using the constant feedback on body position to fine-tune motor movements.\n\nIts location is shown here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum
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It goes to the brain.  That's why some people are called "shitt for brains" not because they're stupid, they're just constipated.
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Y'all are placing too much emphasis on the prefrontal cortex.  People with damage to that reason have trouble with things like planning and being socially aware, but the area is not the only one involved in higher thought.  the language centers, for instance, are also involved, and arguably the regions of the brain that might relate to the subject of the question are active.\n\nI don't think one can reasonably localize the process of asking questions to a single locus in the brain.
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YEP AAND IT CAUSES THE BRAIN TO ASK SILLY QUESTIONS TOO
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nothing. Anything could happen so being superstitious about one thing means you're superstitious about everything. Anyone could steal a pure anyone could steal a car...
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This is a myth that humans only use '10%' of their brain.\n\nAt any given moment in time, subportions of the brain are activated.  But, over time, all parts of the human brain are activated.  Which parts are activated at any given moment have to do with the functions of those parts of the brain and what associations have been established there.  The brain just isn't wired to have all neurons firing at once.\n\nThe evidence of what parts of the brain fire and when is being accumulated by having people perform specific tasks while having their heads scanned by CAT and PET scanners.  These are creating maps of the activity.
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It is part of the primal reptile within the base cortex of the human mind. It is from there that we define ourselves, our mate, our tribe. We can through rational enlightenment control the "reptilian cortex" (a short hand term for the primal creature within), but we are never without it. Religion is an expression of tribe. Our religion; Our God; Our tribe; Our individuality. Hope this helps.
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100%  That 10% saying is bogus.  All of the brain is being used for something, whether it's memory, moving muscles, regulating heartbeat etc.  There is a smaller portion of it used for consciousness.
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Self awareness is dependent mostly on your frontal lobe, and your sense processing regions.  \n\nNo-one understands qualia, but we do know where it comes from based on brain injuries and defects.
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The model that humans only use 10% of their brain was a myth developed about 30 years ago and completely discredited.  The misunderstanding is due to the fact that most of the brain is not involved in conscious processing or abstract reasoning.  But's still busy, involved with sensory processing, motor control, language etc.  (and these tasks are a lot harder than we ever thought.....)