CounterpointStimulating debate with the British Council

It may be a case of collective narcissism, but the past couple of years have seen us all enthralled by the extraordinary insights of neuroscience. Stem-cell research and human enhancement drugs may revolutionise what we can be and do in the near future, but neuroscience makes a special play for our affections by promising to revolutionise our self-understanding. But we must be careful about abstracting the neurological from the cultural and social context in which it occurs.