Great stuff Marsha. I too loved the John Cleese bit AND the MoQ-apropos explanation that reality has distinctly different levels:
"To understand biology, one must think in biological terms." Very good indeed. John On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:04 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > "First, it provides little insight into psychological phenomena... > > Second, brains-in-love talk conflates levels of explanation. > > The third thing wrong with neurobabble is that it has pernicious > feedback effects on science itself. Too much immature science has received > massive funding, on the assumption that it illuminates psychology. The idea > that the neural can replace the psychological is the same idea that led to > thinking that all psychological ills can be cured with drugs." > > > http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/ > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
