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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace

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• A comment on Talk: Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

  Sep 27 2012: Excellent. I would like to know the reference to the 2010 paper he mentions "In fact, there have been so many studies conducted on publication bias now, over a hundred, that they've been collected in a systematic review, published in 2010, that took every single study on publication bias that they could find". Anyone?
  tks
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  A comment on Talk: Emiliano Salinas: A civil response to violence

  Jun 27 2011: coraje is uncorrectly translated as rage. should be courage or brave
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  A comment on Talk: Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

  Jun 14 2011: OK, I'm not a physicist, i'm a neuroscientist. But I'm very much interested to understand how far can quantum mechanics apply to brain, mind, consciousness etc...
  
  I had trouble following the talk, the paper or editorial about it published at science
  
  regarding the talk, I ask myself the following:
  
  1st - He mentions that each atom in the chip is at two places at the same time. I am not sure if this holds. It bothers me to see him talking about quantum events and representing atoms in the old-style of "solid dots". As we know, atoms are more empty space than matter. Thus I wonder what is at two places at the same time? The nucleus, electrons? I can imagine that the nucleus could move just a little bit and, let's say, occupy the space adjacent to where it was just before, but the atom would not have moved at all from a microscopic point of view, because the immense majority of it's volume is empty space. In this sense, all nucleus could be jumping to the side, now occupying what just before was empty space of it's own, and thus the chip would not be on two places from the macroscopic view.
  
  2nd - He claims that if really small particles behave in the weird quantum way, he sees no reason why macroscopic objects would not behave in the same way. Actually there is an explanation for this from systems thinking, called emergent properties. An example is that nothing in the sugar molecule, it's atoms and the bonds between them predicts it's sweet taste. In other words, the sweetness in sugar is an emergent property of the system of atoms from which the molecules of sugar are composed (actually is an emergent property of this plus they're effect on the brain/mind...). In the same way, an emergent property of a complex macroscopic object made of a complex system of quantum particles might just be that the macroscopic object would not behave quantumly!
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  A comment on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 19 2011: Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics and The turning Point
  Stanislav Grof - Beyond the Brain, The cosmic Game and The ultimate Journey
  and of course, Aldous Huxley, all of them, specially brave new world, the island and perennial philosophy

• A reply on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 19 2011: I recommend a little bit of Goswami, Capra and Grof to dispell that
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  A comment on Conversation: Why there are none of the great thinkers of psychedelic science @TED??

  Feb 17 2011: Well, it's definitely not for lack of info, good researchers and available videos. For example the largest ever conference on psychedelic science took place last april in California, and the whole thing is available for free at MAPS web site. Maybe because of the controversy, but I expect TED to be greater than some social prejudices that are still alive, mainly in USA...
  
  Please check the following links:
  http://maps.org/
  http://www.heffter.org/
  http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/
  http://www.hofmann.org/
  http://www.erowid.org/
  http://horizonsnyc.org/
  
  and my own site and blog (in portuguese)
  http://www.plantandoconsciencia.org/
  http://plantandoconsciencia.wordpress.com/

• A comment on Conversation: Why there are none of the great thinkers of psychedelic science @TED??

  Feb 17 2011: Well, it's not lack of researchers, nor lack of videos and info. There are lots of videos, and there are lot of awesome findings, insights and theories for social change that we so much need! For example, last April the largest psychedelic science conference ever took place in California! The videos are all avalable for free at www.maps.org.
  
  Check also the heffter research institute, the beckeley foundation and my own site and blog (almost all in portuguese so far...) plantandoconsciencia.org and the links below
  
  http://maps.org/
  http://www.heffter.org/
  http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/
  http://www.hofmann.org/
  http://www.erowid.org/
  http://www.plantandoconsciencia.org/
  http://plantandoconsciencia.wordpress.com/
  http://www.gaiamedia.org
  
  namasté

• A comment on Conversation: Neuroscientific studies of Enlightened human beings

  Feb 16 2011: This is already under way (see Mind and Life Institute for example), but I totally support any extra efforts in that direction!!