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The scientist James Austin has a quote I like: “We will all be neurobiologists to some degree in the new millennium.” We’re all learning a new language, and I guess you could say these books are part of a new mythology. They’re teaching stories that dramatize our expanded understanding of the brain and self. That said, a lot of the neuro-imaging stuff is overrated, and the media’s obsession — and I am also guilty of this — our obsession with pairing aspects of human life with bits of the brain (“the God module” etc) can get ridiculous. That’s why I still like Freud. At least he could write, and he had a lot more to say about the richness and complexity of inner experience than, say, mirror neurons.

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