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b_b  ·  4019 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Brain Porn' Not So Seductive After All? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

    If we are seduced by neuroscience, it might not be the pretty pictures that people find so alluring.

Neuroscience is very seductive to a lot of people, namely people who have a need to replace religion with something they view as more objective. There is a cult of worship that has simply substituted "brain" for "god", and yet somehow view themselves as more objective thinkers than their religious counterparts. It's somewhat understandable among the public, because obviously neuroscience is very complex and it's impossible for most people, even highly intelligent and educated people, to understand most of it. However, it's way scarier when neuroscientists start talking like cultists. (For example, here.)