Brain thinks of God as another person

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Melissa Nann Burke
 on March 12, 2009 2:34 PM | | Comments (0)

Brain scans of people thinking about God showed activation in the same part of the brain where people empathize with others, according to a team at the National Institutes of Health.

One such brain region is also associated with imagination, balancing complex tasks and self-consciousness.

Read the story from NPR.

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