Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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Recent years have seen a huge growth in the public awareness of neuroscience. People have become more interested in new findings about the brain, and also find brain-based explanations quite compelling. This public interest has led enterprising individuals to try to apply neuroscientific ideas to more everyday situations.
Matt Wall • How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
The problem, however, is that headlines claim that we have identified the cause of depression or love or autism or Alzheimer’s, just because an area of the brain lights up in association
Malcolm Jeeves • Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
Self-transcendence is among the central features of spiritual experience, and it turns out that the loss of self has a neural signature. There is a set of linked structures in the brain that are more active whenever we are processing events from an egocentric point of view—thinking about what I want, what I need to do next, or what other people thi
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