,,,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 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 futurevvv