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A purity culture within communities that elevate neuroscience as the ultimate arbiter of truth about human nature, where adherence to neuroscientific explanations becomes a test of virtue and belonging. Neuroscientific puritanism demands that true members explain all human phenomena—love, morality, consciousness, politics—in terms of brain activity, and treats any appeal to other levels of explanation (social, cultural, experiential) as impurity, heresy, insufficient rigor. Members compete to demonstrate their purity by reducing everything to neurons, dismissing alternative frameworks as unscientific, and condemning those who suggest that human experience might exceed brain scans. The result is a community that claims to value science while being dogmatically closed to the complexity of actual human beings.
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