Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Neuroscientistic Neurobabble

UCLA philosopher Tyler Burge scores some good clean hits against neuroscientistic  Unsinn in a December NYT piece. (HT: Feser).  For example, did you know that there is an area of the brain that wants to make love?  (Is it equipped for any such thing, with  a tiny penis or vagina?  And what would it make love to?  An area of the brain of another organism?  Or a different area of the same brain?  The possibilities of mockery are endless, but I will restrain myself.) But I can't resist reproducing this tidbit:

For example, a recent article reports a researcher’s “looking at love, quite literally, with the aid of an MRI machine.”

Quite literally!  You, sir, have your head in the proctologist's domain, quite literally!

 


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