AME research and graduate proseminar: the problem with explaining things in terms of "'parts' of the brain"

Hardcastle and Stewart succinctly point out a fundamental problem at the heart of the methodology of neuroscience (and of cognitive science): the modularity thesis.

Neuroscience did not “discover” modules — loci of functions —  in brains.   Rather “they don’t even have a good way of accessing the appropriate evidence. It is a bias in neuroscience to localize and modularize brain functions.”

The problem with scientistic methodology is that you see what you expect to see.



There’s much more in play: Noah Brender’s work questions the modularity thesis underlying much of technoscience. 
However, another world is possible :)

Xin Wei