| Sumario: | "Naturalizing how we know things is grounded inquiry within a wide view, in which the biological sciences matter greatly. Our sense of knowing is essentially social. In other words, the knowing process is within the larger sets of events in which the personal and the professional intersect. The experimental and the larger scientific worlds feed off each other endlessly, and the boundaries are porous. In neuroscience, like other forms of inquiry, the investigations are difficult, the fall downward from unreasonable expectation is too easy - a mere half neuron away. Disappointment is a real fact at all levels.We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book: a great respect for neuroscience and its many variations, and a sense of investigation and inquiry demythologized. Think of it as foraging for coherence. Schulkin seeks to anchor inquiry about neuroscience to objects and adaptation. But neuroscience is also symbolic of the very Socratic idea to 'know thyself,' as the brain is that very organ that renders such knowledge possible.
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