Adam Gopnik’s book review article “Mindless: The new neuro-skeptics” talks about the slipperiness of trying to explain what the mind
is doing and why.
“…there are books on your brain and music, books on your
brain and storytelling, books that tell you why your brain makes you want to
join the Army, and books that explain why you wish that Bar Refaeli were in the
barracks with you.”
And later:
“We’ll be informed, say, that when a teen-age boy leafs
through the Sports Illustrated swimsuit
issue areas in his brain associated with sexual desire light up. Yet asserting
that an emotion is really real because you can somehow see it happening in the
brain adds nothing to our understanding.”
Well, let’s get some neurons firing on this lovely Saturday.
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