{"id":4675,"date":"2012-08-01T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2012-08-01T21:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:49:21","slug":"why-we-should-read-seneca-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/why-we-should-read-seneca-not\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY WE SHOULD READ SENECA NOT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>WHY WE SHOULD READ SENECA NOT, SAY, LEHRER. From Chapt 22: NEUROBABBLEWhen it comes to narratives, the brain seems to be the last province of the theoretician-charlatan. Add neurosomething to a field, and suddenly it rises in respectability and becomes more convincing as people now have the illusion of a strong causal link\u2014yet the brain is too complex for that; it is both the most complex part of the human anatomy and the one that is the most susceptible to sucker-causation and charlatanism of the type &#8220;Proust was a neuroscientist&#8221;. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons brought to my attention in their book The Invisible Gorilla the evidence I had been looking for: whatever theory has a reference in it to the brain circuitry seems more \u201cscientific\u201d and more convincing, even when it is just is randomized psycho-neuro-babble.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151012801988375&amp;id=13012333374\">WHY WE SHOULD READ&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY WE SHOULD READ SENECA NOT, SAY, LEHRER. From Chapt 22: NEUROBABBLEWhen it comes to narratives, the brain seems to be the last province of the theoretician-charlatan. Add neurosomething to a field, and suddenly it rises in respectability and becomes more convincing as people now have the illusion of a strong causal link\u2014yet the brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[551,455],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-lehrer","tag-seneca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}