What are the limits of neuroscience?

There are many claims made in the popular media by neuroscientists and journalists that are, in reality, beyond the limits of current neuroscience. read more

The Limits of Current Neuroscience For the many reasons outlined, current neuroscience, while exciting, is over reaching in many of its conclusions. There are many popular writers of neuroscience (both scientists and journalists) who have made far ranging conclusions about the mind, ethics, morality and philosophy supposedly proven by neuroscience. read more

] 2. Neuroscience needs higher data analysis standards On a more practical level, neuroscience is besieged by problems related to bad statistics. read more

12 thoughts on “ The limits of neuroscience ” Dave Snowden July 21, 2011 at 12:53 pm. You might want to read Mark Rowland’s “The New Science of the Mind” MIT 2010. Its a good summary of a body of material around embodied, embedded, enacted and extended (the 4Es) of consciousness. read more