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neuroscience

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the scientific study of the nervous system

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I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about? Francis Collins

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. Matthieu Ricard

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was "the software, not the hardware”, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. Patricia Churchland

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain. Aloe Blacc

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing. David Eagleman

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. Leon Kass

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