Speculating on the Brain

cern as well as pride. The success of its approach to the external world has diverted attention from man's inner life; the resulting understanding of nature has destroyed the supernatural foundations of our earlier moral consensus, without providing a substitute system; and the technological applications of science are increasingly seen to have costs as well as benefits. But while these problems are disturbing, it is also disturbing to see a reaction to them that is creating widespread suspicion of the value of scientific research and even of rationality. For if we were to abandon science and technol

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