Korridorium

♫ The Bias Switch ♫

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I enter the cor­ri­dor between two incom­pat­i­ble statements—a men­tal exer­cise I’ve prac­ticed for years to make use of my morn­ing tooth-brush­ing rou­tine. Today: “Home­opa­thy is pseu­do­sci­en­tific non­sense” ver­sus “Like cures like, even in high dilu­tion.” At first glance, both state­ments appear irrec­on­cil­able, the­sis and antithe­sis; but upon closer exam­i­na­tion and reflec­tion, I begin to dis­cern con­nec­tions between these con­tra­dic­tions. A cor­ri­dor takes shape, one that I men­tally ven­ture into to explore fur­ther, at which point it usu­ally quickly expands, unfolds, and branches out…

Just as I con­tem­plate whether the human imagination—when reduced to the so-called placebo effect—might be crim­i­nally under­es­ti­mated, my four antin­omy-min­utes are already up. So, I place my elec­tric tooth­brush back on the shelf above the sink and turn my atten­tion to the press­ing ques­tions and chal­lenges of the day.

Film The Placebo Effect (3 min):

Film God is in the Neu­rons (22 min):