It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
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