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  2. History of the location of the soul - Wikipedia

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    According to the recordings of his work, Herophilus thought that the location of the soul is in the brain, specifically in the ventricles of the brain, the 4 open cavities in the innermost parts of the brain. Herophilos describes the distinction of the soul and natures as being intertwined within the body and while are separate things, cannot ...

  3. Sensus divinitatis - Wikipedia

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    Sensus divinitatis (Latin for "sense of divinity"), also referred to as sensus deitatis ("sense of deity") or semen religionis ("seed of religion"), is a term first employed by French Protestant reformer John Calvin to describe a postulated human sense.

  4. Methods of divination - Wikipedia

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    bone-throwing: the tossing of pieces of bone or wood practiced by various cultures [5] [6] botanomancy / b oʊ ˈ t æ n oʊ m æ n s i / : by burning pieces of plants, documented with burning vervain and briar . [ 7 ] (

  5. God gene - Wikipedia

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    Hamer responded that the existence of such a gene would not be incompatible with the existence of a personal God: "Religious believers can point to the existence of God genes as one more sign of the creator's ingenuity—a clever way to help humans acknowledge and embrace a divine presence."

  6. On the Sacred Disease - Wikipedia

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    The brain of a human is similar to other animals in that it is double and divided by a thin membrane through the middle. Hippocrates attributes this fact as the reason that a patient's pain is not always located in the same spot on his or her head. Veins from the body's major organs connect to the brain and vary in size.

  7. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sensory nervous system ...

  8. Bicameral mentality - Wikipedia

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    The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain that appears to be "speaking" and a second part that listens and obeys—a bicameral mind—and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans.

  9. Boltzmann brain - Wikipedia

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    In nucleation, the most common fluctuations are as close to thermal equilibrium overall as possible given whatever arbitrary criteria are provided for labeling a fluctuation a "Boltzmann brain". [8] Theoretically a Boltzmann brain can also form, albeit again with a tiny probability, at any time during the matter-dominated early universe. [19]