Neuroscience fast developing technical conceptual wherewithal reveal f — Paul Broks, Silent Land: Travels Neuropsychology

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Neuroscience is fast developing the technical and conceptual wherewithal to reveal in fine, bare detail the neurobiological substrates of the mind. Perhaps it will despoil a sacred myth – the myth of selfhood and souls. And, if so, we may be wandering innocently into the opening phase of a dangerous game. Our ethics and systems of justice, our entire moral order, are founded on the notion of society as a collective of individual selves – autonomous, introspective, accountable agents. If this self-reflective, moral agent is revealed to be illusory, then what?

Paul Broks, Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology

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