Author Zack Lynch on How Neuroscience Will Change the World

[dapaulson1]

Just like everything that humans have done, since the beginning of time, there will be significant advancements and the creation of significant ethical challenges. Isn't the future exciting. Sadly, just when we solve one problem, we create another. The wonderful challenges of the future will be assured, because we will continue to find new opportunities to fix the innerworkings of our humanity.

[celshader]

Neuromarketing. How disturbing.

[vonfinkelstein]

@celshader Neuromarketing is not new - advertising and business have always been closely tied with psychology.

[Aeschylus]

Awesome!

[0HippyHunter0]

ReasonTV seriously censors the comments on its youtube vidoes? I hope they can make sense of that in thier brain without being hypocrites, I can't.

[Bloodstryke]

Wow, this guy thinks he knows so much and is a self righteous busybody.

[rumco]

@Bloodstryke Which one? :D

[MT443]

How can one person in ever three have a brain disorder?

[crazyassailant]

@MT443 Depends on the definition of 'brain disorder.' The term he used was 'brain-related illness,' and went on to say that it included 'neurological...and psychiatric illnesses...' This would seem to include anything from strokes, Alzheimer's, and physical trauma to the brain, all the way down to mild depression, OCD, and anything in between. Sounds extreme, but I wouldn't be surprised if you looked hard enough, you could diagnose anyone with some sort of 'disease' or 'disorder.'

[Codad]

@MT443 When they include depression and anxiety that is a fairly easy number to hit.

[vonfinkelstein]

@MT443 That includes ADD, ADHD, OCD, ODD, autism, Asperger's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, dementia, MS, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, Parkinson's, phobias, hypochondria, bipolar, epilepsy, PTSD, stroke, all forms of depression and more. Get the picture?

[ishejeffwaters]

@vonfinkelstein

You missed the deadliest brain disease --- the Neurotypical syndrome

This "Neuroscience" is indeed quackery

[vonfinkelstein]

@ishejeffwaters Sure, there is a lot of quackery in neuroscience. I actually have AS myself, but do not refer to (supposedly) normal people as neurotypicals. I was only explaining to MT443 how 1/3 of people can have a diagnosable mental disorder.

[BloodFeather]

te interviewer looks like homer simpson :<

[BoogaFrito]

The good news is neuroscience will eventually cure the people compelled to start every answer with the word "So..."

[wetwingnut]

I have a friend who is a researcher and head of Neurology at a major hospital. He is seeking private research funding because he says that the peer review process of government funding rejects ideas that are truly innovative or which might challenge current research efforts. As he puts it, peer reviewers tend to support research that is similar to their own and which supports their hypotheses. It's a shame that in this country we have gradually abdicated scientific research to the government.

[Liberty4Ever]

I'd like to be the first to welcome our new neuroscience enhanced overlords!

I'd have gotten more from this video if neuroscience was defined first, and if a couple of concrete examples were explored in a little more detail. Just as a meaty example was starting to provide some insight into this subject, the interview would take off in another direction. I'm left with a vague and unsatisfactory understanding.

[kev3d]

4:16, classic.

[Nexus974]

Did he just say one person in three in this country has some kind of brain problem??

[tjttzcspplt]

@profwito I think he was trying to stimulate conversation about the issues of health care. I

[tjttzcspplt]

Good for Reason TV for bringing up the ethical issues of this technology. Too bad no one cares about ethics, anymore, except those on the losing end of it.

[3tcpx]

what does this have to do with anything that reason is involved in?

[tjttzcspplt]

@3tcpx The ethical issues that surround it. Autonomy, self-determination, distributive justice, etc.

[hannas1234]

This guy is a nutbar. Talk about market fixing... investment tax credits and tax policy changes geared toward his particular interest?

[SpecialElisa]

@TheDrunkenCabDriver Dopamine makes me happier.

[blogegog]

Neuroscience Schmuroscience, that's what I always say. It doesn't mean anything, but it's very fun to say. Another thing that's fun to say is 'Radley Balko'. Not sure why.

[yougiberishtube]

thumbs up

[kamikazee55]

Fuck neuroscience. Individuals have independence. Communists believe this kind of shit. They believe that we are only a body of flesh. That human beings are no different than animals.

[kamikazee55]

@0HippyHunter0 Rid the world of souls? I never said any bullshit like that. I have heard neuroscientists claim that criminals are pre-destined to be criminals. They say that you are your brain, and whatever your brain decides, you do.

You are quite a stupid fuck.

[0HippyHunter0]

@kamikazee55 "They believe that we are only body of flesh." This would lead one to believe that you believe we are MORE than flesh. Correct?

[S1aptasticSquadalah]

@kamikazee55 Well technically. . .

[SpecialElisa]

@kamikazee55 Right... prove otherwise..?

[kamikazee55]

@SpecialElisa Well dumbass communist, the proof is pretty simple. What separates man from animal is a reasoning rational mind. The thing that neuroscience seeks to destroy.

[SpecialElisa]

@kamikazee55 TROLOLOLOLOL

[tjttzcspplt]

@kamikazee55 Good point, but the vulgarity is a little tiresome and offputting. It makes you seem a little off your rocker.

[kev3d]

@kamikazee55 Independence from what? True, we have bigger brains that evolved to help us reason, trade, build tools and so on, but we still only ever have a fleshy brain from which we are commanded. The mind IS the brain, though the brain is also all the unconscious stuff like the senses, breathing and hunger. Humans are animals, different animals, but animals all the same. Otherwise, show me a human that doesn't eat, breathe, sleep, poop or screw like an animal.

[kamikazee55]

@kev3d Independence from everything. There is nothing that humans cannot overcome, unlike animals which are the bitches of the world. And no we are not commanded from our brain. If anything, we rule over our brains. Individuals are not their brains slaves like you seem to think. Individuals have an unlimited potential and not even their brain could get in the way of that.

[kev3d]

@kamikazee55 Let me know when you become so independent that you can swim in a river of lava or swallow plutonium unharmed.

What is it that rules "over" our brain? The mind cannot be divorced from that organ. This is proven in cases of brain trauma which can radically alter personality AND functionality. If the brain was nothing more than a regulatory organ, then we humans wouldn't need anything much larger than a mouse's brain. That would require much fewer calories and oxygen.

[kamikazee55]

@kev3d I would bet there will be a day when lava and plutonium wont hurt us. We used to think flying was impossible, looks like it's not.

[thedrizzle09]

@TheDrunkenCabDriver And Heroine makes to body make more of it! :D

[WalridgeWalrus]

Poor Nick.. he tried to squeeze in an exercise joke twice

[Mastikator]

If hugs and exercise is the way then I've been going about this all wrong.

[mariagianna624]

interesting.

[rrush2214]

i want neurosurgery to become a superhuman...

[andrewclunn]

@rrush2214

I want you to be the first to get neurosurgery to become a superhuman, so they can work out the problems with you, so that it will actually work for me.

[stick1to2the3issue]

The Pinky and the Brain, the Pinky and the Brain.

[InfernalApocalypse]

@stick1to2the3issue

Their twilight campaign is easy to explain!