There's no real serious progress on the questions that motivate people to become neuroscientists most of the time, he says. "Neuroscience is the most difficult field in all of science because it's the field where you have to put back in the intrinsic perspective and it meets the extrinsic one" He adds: "We want some sort of explanation of how and why that's occurring."
Neuroscientist and author Erik Hoel talks about his book, The World Behind the World, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Is it possible to reconcile the seemingly subjective inner world of human experience with the seemingly objective outer world of observation, measurement, and science? Despite the promise of neuroscience, Hoel argues that this reconciliation is surprisingly difficult. Join Hoel and Roberts for a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to be human and the limits of science in helping us understand who we are.