Apple Products Cause Religious Experience In People

Source - http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...action-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/

In a recently screened BBC documentary, UK neuroscientists suggested that the brains of Apple devotees are stimulated by Apple imagery in the same way that the brains of religious people are stimulated by religious imagery.

People have often talked about “the cult of Apple”, and if a recent BBC TV documentary is to be believed, there could be something in it.

The program, Secrets of the Superbrands, looks at why technology megabrands such as Apple, Facebook and ******* have become so popular and such a big part of many people’s lives.

In the first episode, presenter Alex Riley decided to take a look at Apple. He wanted to discover what it is about the company that makes people so emotional. Footage of the opening of the Cupertino company’s Covent Garden store in central London last year showed hordes of Apple devotees lining up outside overnight, while the staff whipped up customers (and themselves) into something of an evangelical frenzy. This religious-like fervor got Riley thinking – he decided to take a closer look at the inside of the head of an Apple fanatic to see what on earth was going on in there.

Riley contacted the editor of World of Apple, Alex Brooks, an Apple worshipper who claims to think about Apple 24 hours a day, which is possibly 23 hours too many for most regular people. A team of neuroscientists studied Brooks’ brain while undergoing an MRI scan, to see how it reacted to images of Apple products and (heaven forbid) non-Apple products.

According to the neuroscientists, the scan revealed that there were marked differences in Brooks’ reactions to the different products. Previously, the scientists had studied the brains of those of religious faith, and they found that, as Riley puts it: “The Apple products are triggering the same bits of [Brooks'] brain as religious imagery triggers in a person of faith.”

 

fascinating. i dont own any apple products but my brother in law has a macbook pro, one of their desktop thingys, 2 ipods, the iphone4 and a ipad. even though he is asian i think that is pretty extreme.

thanks for the read

I wonder what a brain scan would show of people such as Nightmarerh, who worship runescape, when shown pictures of runescape and WOW?

 

i wont even begin to go into how bad this science is

jesus, just because the same part of the brain is stimulated does not mean the same exact process is occurring

 

Be fair, all they seem to be doing is observing a correlation. It's a reasonable to suggest that apple fans might have a similar reaction to seeing an ipad to a catholic seeing a crucifix, or indeed a runescape player to a whip or something. This doesn't really qualify as a religious experience though.