![]() There is a real and important phenomenon here, but it tends to gets misconstrued, taken out of context, and then set absolute as if everything depended on it when it comes to the future of humanity.' ' Empathy is one of these fashionable watchwords of popular science that is being publicly promoted in recent years (comparable to ‘resilience’, ‘depression’, ‘neuroplasticity’, ‘well-being’ and so much more). How to bring all the various levels from chemical transmitters, to single neurons, to cell assemblies to entire brain regions together, how to juggle the many different often incompatible measurement techniques, data types, processing protocols etc.? How to do all that moreover in the absence of a workable and agreed-upon general brain theory?' ![]() ![]() ' When it comes to neuroscience itself, the chief agenda is one about coming to terms with the shocking magnitude of the basic task: to investigate the most complex object in the known universe with a set of methods and practices that are obviously still massively inadequate. ![]()
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