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The Brain and Consciousness

In Our Time: Science

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Drugs and the Brain

Steven says we have a real problem with the way drugs are being used to manipulate our brains. He is concerned that more and more, despite efforts of people like Dan Aitken, scientists are looking to biology rather than genetics for answers on how the world works. And he fears this could lead to us homogenising all sorts of social problems by solving them in terms of drug treatment.

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