Now, the reason why I’m optimistic is I think there have been some
success stories where we really have learned some surprising and
important things about the mind and there’s no reason to expect this way
of proceeding to fail us in the future. In the very first class on the
brain I ended by talking about people’s worries here, and I’ll be
honest, that some people find it a scary prospect. Some people believe
that a scientific approach to the mind takes the “Special-ness” away
from people, that it diminishes us somehow. And I don’t agree. If
there’s anything I’ve tried to persuade you through the course, it’s
that the more you look at the mind and how it works from a serious
scientific point of view the more you come to appreciate its
complexities, uniqueness, and its beauty. This has been a great course
to teach.
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李小梁Jadon Lee