SO YOU THINK YOU’RE A STARSEED?
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Importance of the Mind in Medicine
A lot of people who believe in the Starseed, they think that they're a soul or a mind first. And then they basically, they inhabit a physical body. That sounds dangerous because then you could be like, well, I just have to get my mind right. Now get rid of this cancer. But having said that, there's a lot of evidence on placebos that makes placebos way more effective than we thought they were. So the mind might have more role to play in medicine than we thought 20, 30 years ago. Right. Well, that makes perfect sense to me. Yes. All the same as reading novel science fiction novels or fantasy novels, that gets you identified
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