Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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
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How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
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Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
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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
In December 2011, Professor John Stein, a leading Oxford neuroscientist, wrote, “Claims are being made about brain research that just aren’t true, and they are being accepted
Malcolm Jeeves • Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
“It’s common in our culture to compare the brain to a computer, but this is a deeply flawed analogy.”
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
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