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An intensified form of scientism focused specifically on neuroscience as the ultimate arbiter of human experience. Under neuroscientism, complex phenomena like love, consciousness, art, and morality are reduced to brain scans, neurotransmitter levels, and neural correlates. The neuroscientist claims that once you know which brain region lights up, you've explained the phenomenon away. This approach ignores that neural activity is a correlate, not a replacement, and that human experience operates at multiple levels that cannot be collapsed into the firing of neurons.
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