(April 19, 2015 at 1:31 am)Mezmo! Wrote: Maybe you can explain how the placebo effect works, because its not material when you subsitute an effective drug with one that isn't and yet it still works.How can you be so sure? If thought processes correlate to the physical structure of the brain at any given moment, and your brain is so configured that you feel optimism while at the same time this causes your body to produce the chemicals needed to heal itself without drugs, how is that "not material"?
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