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#247 — Constructing Minds

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is It the Fault of Brain Imaging Techniques?

The methods we use to understand brain function, like increasingly functional narrow imogine, can also give a false picture of the modularity of the brain and therefore the mind. And it can give a sense, not to actual nervo scientists generally, but perhaps in a more subtle way, can even corrupt their thinking. I would say that with f m ri, you know, evenroy has its problems. But really it has much more to do with the kinds of designs tha scientists use and the kinds of analytic techniques that they use.

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