To support a negative conclusion about the former, one must also assume that consciousness has absolutely no measurable effects on behavior, i.e., one must accept epiphenomenalism.
Accumulating data suggest that placebos have measurable effects on the brain as well as objective (physicians can measure improvement in patients) and subjective (patients report feeling better) benefits for patients.
For the public good, we need to appreciate that the environment has clear and measurable effects on the brain and behavior, for worse and for better.
Research suggests that unattended stimuli, although strongly suppressed, can actually have a range of measurable effects on behaviour, influencing our thoughts and actions.
But whether it can actually produce measurable effects on cholesterol is a question that has drawn much debate.
Of some interest, there is moderately strong evidence that a states political orientation has consistent and measurable effects on economic growth; perhaps surprisingly, a more "conservative" political orientation is associated with lower rates of economic growth.
There were no measurable effects on feed intake and milk production for any of the treatments.
Laparoscopic surgery produces measurable effects on cardio-circulatory, respiratory and metabolic systems.
Interestingly, inhibiting collagen crosslinking had no measurable effects on the statically cultured samples.
We tested the hypothesis that trees have measurable effects on infiltrability, macroporosity, and preferential flows in agrosilvopastoral systems.
For example, work by Deretzis et al. [2] has shown that even single vacancy deformations in graphene nanoribbons can have measurable effects on the material's conduction properties.
