Comment Re:Perspective (Score 1) 174
I do not think that all or even most experimental psychology studies use brain scans to gather the results. Instead they ask the participant what they think. A physicist does not ask a rock if it thinks it fell quicker with weights attached to it, he simply measures the fall. Furthermore, not only do we not understand the brain enough to really know exactly what we are looking at when we take a scan of the brain, but the brain is such a mutable object that you cannot really compare one to another the same way that you can with other organs. You can cut away as much as 50% of a live working brain and still have a live working brain, which have switched functions that used to be done in the gone part into entirely different parts of the brain; That is akin to cutting out someones liver and having the heart take over the duties of blood cleaning.