Electromagnetic experiments on consciousness?

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In the YouTube comments section of a video covering evidence for consciousness not being produced by the brain, there were several comments that caught my eye. The usual cynical, uninformed lot of course, but then there were also commenters who claimed that consciousness is produced by the brain because there have been experiments conducted showing how electromagnetic waves can affect a person's behaviour and mindset to the point of 'altering their morality and memories'. I'm not sure if this has been discussed here before and has anything to do with the materialist 'feedback loop theory' that argues that the brain can achieve complex levels of consciousness, among other things, via feedback loops. 

What are your thoughts on this and has anybody heard of such examples?

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As noted here there's a good reason to reject this is proof materialism/physicalism is true, given these skeptical parties that continue to doubt the physicalist/materialist faith.


Additionally, whatever is shown by parapsychology or neuroscience, here are four good reasons to reject the religion of physicalism/materialism.
(This post was last modified: 2020-07-06, 07:58 PM by OmniVersalNexus.)
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As nbtruthman mentioned in another post, the only example I can think of for these 'experiments' is the controversial (and arguably flawed) God Helmet experiment. I haven't seen any recent articles claiming that consciousness/the self can be affected by electromagnetism either. They don't cite their sources so I'm very confused as to where they're coming from.
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Sorry if I'm annoying you Max, I don't tend to go looking for things that may upset or confuse me for one reason or another. 

I found that article too but not much else. The only study I found which indicated that electromagnetism can affect morality was this one from 2010: 
http://news.mit.edu/2010/moral-control-0330

Quote:Previous studies have shown that a brain region known as the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is highly active when we think about other people’s intentions, thoughts and beliefs. In the new study, the researchers disrupted activity in the right TPJ by inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the scalp. They found that the subjects’ ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding of other people’s intentions — for example, a failed murder attempt — was impaired.
One commenter noted: 'That magnets affect the organism, that's a triviality. EM fields can affect any human cognitive dynamics, of which moral judgment is just an example. Insistence of "neuroscience" upon the reduction of the organism to the brain, a single organ, is unscientific, a replication of a bad Cartesianism. Any judgment, by its nature, involves the whole organism, in relation with the environment/world, independently of the brain region mobilized at the moment.'
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