Comments on: Mohammed Bushra – Week One Questions http://blogs.p2pu.org/neurobiolaw/2009/09/16/mohammed-bushra-week-one-questions/ Just another P2PU Blogs weblog Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Is it appropriate to start talking about a neurocentric age? « ξένία http://blogs.p2pu.org/neurobiolaw/2009/09/16/mohammed-bushra-week-one-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Is it appropriate to start talking about a neurocentric age? « ξένία Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:59:07 +0000 http://blogs.p2pu.org/neurobiolaw/?p=120#comment-38 [...] Like Mohammed, I believe this can only be determined in retrospect. Strikingly, Generations of humans before us didn’t even know what the brain was for. Aristotle for example thought the brain’s function was to cool the blood. Considering how little was known about the seat of the mind until fairly recently in history, it doesn’t sound wrong to talk about a “neuroaware” age. neurocentism [...] [...] Like Mohammed, I believe this can only be determined in retrospect. Strikingly, Generations of humans before us didn’t even know what the brain was for. Aristotle for example thought the brain’s function was to cool the blood. Considering how little was known about the seat of the mind until fairly recently in history, it doesn’t sound wrong to talk about a “neuroaware” age. neurocentism [...]

]]> By: Neuroethics and International Biolaw» Blog Archive » Xenia: Is it appropriate to start talking about a neurocentric age? http://blogs.p2pu.org/neurobiolaw/2009/09/16/mohammed-bushra-week-one-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Neuroethics and International Biolaw» Blog Archive » Xenia: Is it appropriate to start talking about a neurocentric age? Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:50:13 +0000 http://blogs.p2pu.org/neurobiolaw/?p=120#comment-36 [...] Like Mohammed, I believe this can only be determined in retrospect. Strikingly, Generations of humans before us didn’t even know what the brain was for. Aristotle for example thought the brain’s function was to cool the blood. Considering how little was known about the seat of the mind until fairly recently in history, it doesn’t sound wrong to talk about a “neuroaware” age. [...] [...] Like Mohammed, I believe this can only be determined in retrospect. Strikingly, Generations of humans before us didn’t even know what the brain was for. Aristotle for example thought the brain’s function was to cool the blood. Considering how little was known about the seat of the mind until fairly recently in history, it doesn’t sound wrong to talk about a “neuroaware” age. [...]

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