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BSP 83: William Uttal: Is brain imaging the new phrenology?

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The New Brain Metaphor

Cognitive neuroscience and psychology both lack a specific universal theory. We don't even have a single theory to try to test, but why is this important? Well, when we started, I said that I think this is the most important problem in human history. This is cosmology and kinetics, which are much simpler problems in a mathematical sense than if the mind-brain issue was treated as such.

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