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Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder
Ant writes "This Wired News article says it seems to take more brain effort to tell a lie than to tell the truth according to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. Lying caused activity in the frontal part of the brain -- the medial inferior and pre-central areas, as well as the hippocampus and middle temporal regions and the limbic areas. Some of these are involved in emotional responses. During a truthful response, the fMRI showed activation of parts of the brain's frontal lobe, temporal lobe and cingulate gyrus."
"No honey I'm not lying to you, just practicing for my MENSA exam tomorrow"
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That would be correct, I have done several studies on this, since I am a doctor and all. Definatly more brain activity occurs when you lie. For that groudbreaking information I ask a mere $25 from each and everyone of you via Paypal... since I am a doctor and all...
They can't tell if we're lying, MRIs are notoriously unreliable when faced with tinfoil hats.
Now I know why sometimes I feel like the hardest working man on the planet.
You can't handle the truth.
... to why I am to gosh darn smart !
- I run a 40-yard dash in 2 seconds
- I compleded college by the age of 18
- I have climbed the Everest - naked
- I became Mr Universe AND Miss Universe, in the same year
The lie-detector episode that ends with Beavis arrested as the "Hippie Ripper". "When asked how a teenage boy could have committed the brutal murders over twenty years ago, a police spokeswoman said, quote, "He's very clever.""
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Those Microsoft brains must be working really hard... just look at the Slashdot advertisements that are running with this story.
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MS's "Get the Facts"
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Oh the irony!
Maybe that content-based advertising system really does work!
Hmm...my wife is always tired and exhausted from "working so hard". This may explain a few things...
According to media reports, brains of :-)
Pastor/Brother George Bush and some of his engineers are reaching the absolute infinity temperature
God bless US of Jesus ( formerly USA )
I got laid today...
whew. I'm pooped.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
Wouldn't it be nice to test this theory on the great W. Bush?
... Can you make sure they're on tight? I'm not getting a reading here.
Doctor: Ok, put the probes on the president, Norma.
Norma: They are on, sir.
Doctor:
Norma: Yes sir, they're on tight.
Doctor: Mr. Bush, can you please tell us why we are at war with Iraq.
Dub'ya: They are a terrorist harboring nation with weapons of mass destruction! Yeehaw!
Doctor: Norma, can you turn down the sensor sensitivity, please? My reader just crashed.
Dub'ya: Yee-haw!!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
The quote at the bottom of the page when this article was posted was:
:P
"One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true."
It's soo true! I do *ALL* the damn work around here.
"Be afraid to die until you have won some victory for humanity" -Horace Mann
R: "I'll pay you $50 to be in this experiment"
S: "Sweet!"
R: "Just lie down under this scanner..."
S: "Is this gonna give me cancer?"
R: "No no, it's perfectly safe. Just a moment... ok, main screen turn on."
S: "Can I go now?"
R: "No, first you have to tell me who fired the gun"
S: "What gun?"
R: "The gun that was fired about 10 minutes ago"
S: "But I only just got here!"
R: "Is that so... where were you 10 minutes ago?"
S: "I was on Slashdot!"
R: "You're lying!"
FBI busts down the door, carts the test subject off to Cuba. Another day, another victory in the War On Terror.
fish and pipes
You've never worked with sales people, have you?
only on slashdot can truth and lying be turned into a discussion of how the hamming distance of a set of predicates from reality may be used to measure the magnitude of a lie
I finally kow... it's not the sex part that makes me tired....
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This is your boss.
You're fired.
And these are not the droids I'm looking for.
Move along. Move along.
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"You have liberated me from thought."
No wonder those High School jocks that can smooth talk their way into and out of anything end up packing my groceries when I am living in a nice house with a decent family... I despise stupid people.
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I always tell the truth. I'm too lazy to lie
Says the guy who went by a pseudonym.
Bad karma for correcting people I always say.
I half-expected that this story would be categorized under Politics.
According to the Bible a man can have as many wives as he wants at a time. Women can not have more than one husband at a time. You could truthfully say that you are not cheating.
considering it takes more effort to lie, and effort must be paid for with calories...
I wanna call my diet "Lie Your ASS Off". literally. =)
"All that glitters is not gold"
...Bill Gates recent MRI scans. They were off the charts.
At first, I thought it was due to exceptionally high intelligence. Now we know "the rest of the story."
Dr. Tim
And yes, I am a huge fan of the hippocampus. Me too!. I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.