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And
are we really ready for a one of our character flaws to be described as a
‘wiring problem’. And if you are feeling
happy would it make you irritated if someone described your state of happiness
as ‘a cascade of reward neurotransmitters’.
Or, your state of depression described as a ‘chemical imbalance’, or of
some heroic act you did that imperilled your own safety as, was no more than
your ‘special altruism-boosting, mirror neurons,’ impelling you to act. Or the moral hazards of the criminal pleading
innocent on the basis that his brain made him do it, ‘look at my brain scan’.
For many this might conjure up Orwellian “thought crime.” a Frankenstein
science, leading to a post-human future.
So, you might well ask, is this brain science really the new Eldorado?
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