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欧洲科学家进行人类灵肉分离试验？

作者：hbchendl

　　在一个论坛上发现了这么一篇文章《欧洲科学家进行人类灵肉分离试验》，
查询其来源是中国青年报社的青年参考网站，作者是“本报特约撰稿　李月”，
并且被大量转载：
　　http://qnck.cyol.com/content/2007-09/15/content_1895574.htm

　　里面说：
　　惊人试验：体会“灵肉分离” 
　　８月下旬，两位生物学家的实验引起了科学界的极大关注。一位是亨利克·
艾尔森博士，来自瑞典斯德哥尔摩卡罗林斯卡研究所；另一位是来自瑞士日内瓦
大学附属医院的奥拉夫·布兰克博士。他们通过实验，成功地将志愿者的自我意
识同身体分开，说得通俗一点，就好似肉身和灵魂分离，即所谓的“灵魂出窍”。
这两个实验被美国《科学》杂志８月号刊登，引起一片哗然。

　　在此文的后半部分，作者还回顾了一些“著名专家”的“研究结果”，认为
上面这篇研究报告支持了他们的观点：“神经细胞彼此之间有无形的沟通物质，
这就是灵魂的构成。”


　　我很难相信科学家们会真的去研究什么“灵魂出窍”，更不相信大名鼎鼎的
《科学》杂志也会登载这样的文章。突然想到，既然FDA可以“首次承认中医
是...”,那《科学》杂志当然也是可以研究一下能出窍的灵魂的。于是到《科学》
杂志的网站上查找，果然真有这么篇文章。还在news of this week栏目里着重
介绍这篇研究报告。

　　可让我困惑的是，这个研究报告虽然“成功地将志愿者的自我意识同身体分
开”，但却没有“说得通俗一点，就好似肉身和灵魂分离，即所谓的'灵魂出窍'”
的意思。此文的结论“Our results indicate that spatial unity and bodily 
self-consciousness can be studied experimentally and are based on 
multisensory and cognitive processing of bodily information.”跟“能出
窍的灵魂”有关系吗？

　　介绍科学杂志上的文章，首先应该准确表达原文的意思，如果害怕背上个
“抄袭”的罪名，重新组织一下文字使其更有吸引眼球力倒也无可厚非。不过改
得与原文意思相差了十万八千里恐怕就会背上个“篡改”的罪名吧？

news of this week:
PSYCHOLOGY:
Out-of-Body Experiences Enter the Laboratory Greg Miller 
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5841/1020a

Reports
Science 24 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5841, pp. 1096 - 1099
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143439
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/317/5841/1096
Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness Bigna 
Lenggenhager,1 Tej Tadi,1 Thomas Metzinger,2,3 Olaf Blanke1,4* Humans 
normally experience the conscious self as localized within their 
bodily borders. This spatial unity may break down in certain 
neurological conditions such as out-of-body experiences, leading to a 
striking disturbance of bodily self-consciousness. On the basis of 
these clinical data, we designed an experiment that uses conflicting 
visual-somatosensory input in virtual reality to disrupt the spatial 
unity between the self and the body. We found that during multisensory 
conflict, participants felt as if a virtual body seen in front of them 
was their own body and mislocalized themselves toward the virtual body, 
to a position outside their bodily borders. Our results indicate that 
spatial unity and bodily self-consciousness can be studied 
experimentally and are based on multisensory and cognitive processing 
of bodily information. 
1 Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale 
de Lausanne, Station 15, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
2 Philosophical Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, 55099 
Mainz, Germany.
3 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang 
Goethe-Universit?t, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
4 Department of Neurology, University Hospital, 1214 Geneva, 
Switzerland. 
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: 
olaf.blanke@epfl.ch 

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