R: Yes, That makes sense. One last question, because we've got to wrap
up. Have you looked at religion in terms
of brain activity? Because certainly
religion and politics play a role, and it would be very interesting to learn
what different kinds of religious practices and beliefs are associated in terms
of brain activity.
D: There are some people that
are doing work on what they call "Neurotheology," and think about the implications
of what we're learning about the brain for religious experience. My training is as a lawyer, and as a
political scientist, and as a neuroscientist, so I haven't done any of the work
on religion. But I do, down the road,
look forward to getting into some different studies looking at the role of
religion in politics, because I think there's some fascinating stuff we can get
into, in particular because different religious organizations have different
political systems, and that changes the way that they make decisions.
The Quakers may have very different politics and political structures
than Presbyterians. I'm a Presbyterian,
and they have committees, and meetings, and particular ways of doing decision
making that are very bureaucratic, often, and very different than Quakers. You go to a Quaker meeting in Philadelphia,
and it's a really different kind of experience than I grew up with in the
church. And I think these political
structures also are going to change the way we look at the world/
R: We've got to wrap it up
here. This is the Rob Kall Bottom Up
Radio Show, WNJC 1360 AM. I've been
speaking with Darren Schreiber, a neuroscientist.
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