‘I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.’ –Nabokov
“Neuroscience gives us a completely new perspective,” says Marco Iacoboni, UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. “For millennia we’ve relied on people’s words. Neuroscience uncovers the things that people don’t say — and often can’t say, because there is a lot that goes on in our brain that is difficult to verbalize, or that we aren’t even aware of.”
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…what neuroscience can tell us about ourselves: it reveals some of the most important conditions that are necessary for behavior and awareness.
What neuroscience does not do, however, is provide a satisfactory account of the conditions that are sufficient for behavior and awareness. Its descriptions of what these phenomena are and of how they arise are incomplete in several crucial respects, as we will see. (…)
While to live a human life requires having a brain in some kind of working order, it does not follow from this fact that to live a human life is to be a brain in some kind of working order.
screenshot { Zelig, 1983 }
