The Shrinking World of Ideas - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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To put it in the most basic terms: Our preferences, behaviors, tropes, and thoughts—the very stuff of consciousness—are byproducts of the brain’s activity. And once we map the electrochemical impulses that shoot between our neurons, we should be able to understand—well, everything. So every discipline becomes implicitly a neurodiscipline, including ethics, aesthetics, musicology, theology, literature, whatever.
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If all behavior has an electrochemical component, then in what sense—psychological, legal, moral—is a person responsible for his actions?
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neuroscience has put a new spin on free will and culpability:
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