If I was giving a powerpoint presentation / lecture to an audience I would remove the last third of the cartoon before I would pivot to related subjects (strip out all the stuff after "So what do we do about this?"
If I was giving a powerpoint presentation on this kind of thing, I would feel I owed my audience a profound apology for wasting their life trying to justify my existence by complicating a topic that people do just suffer in silence on hearing something to which they don't want to listen, as well as a reflection on the uselessness of my existence.
Grits teeth,
That's your highly prejudicial opinion. Fundamental assumptions, forcing patterns and a narrow mental focus have helped us get this far. These are features, not bugs. You need to make some sort of case, based on hard evidence, that there is some advantage to changing the functions of the dominant species of the planet, specifically regarding the methods it has used to become such. And you need to demonstrate why individuals should suffer the attempts of busybodies to rewire their brain, to their own personal advantage. My prejudices and hostile responses might make me less pleasant to deal with, but you have to prove the advantage to ME in changing that scenario.
All this stuff looks like is excuses to keep a rather silly branch of pseudo-science in government grants. Neuroscience should stick to solving actual problems, not aesthetic ones. Psychology should sit quietly until someone asks its opinion.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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