Whilst the traditional psychoanalytical theories of the mind, and how they assume they condition behavior, is transparently model, often ideological, based, what about the ideological interpretation of MRI scans - are they safe (consider the following following amusing story... wired/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/)? Are the eliminative materialist/physicalist-determinist assumptions made in mainstream Neuroscience valid? Its ironic that many mainstream Neuroscientists are quick to dismiss the assumptions of earlier models of cognition/behavior, whilst being blind to the ideological assumptions that are embedded in their own models. Neuroscience is shaping up to be a fierce battleground for how we should organize our societies... Gender differences, criminal law, political persuasions—we should be prepared to tackle difficult questions about whether or not “our brains make us do it.” To judge from some commentaries, the more established psychological frameworks such as Freudianism and Kleinianism traditionally used to decipher behavior such as dysfunction, trauma and intelligence—are about to be replaced with the MRI scanner. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ball/do-our-brains-make-us-do-it-neuroscienc/#.UxWlJud_v7UNeuroscience
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 11:35:05 +0000
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