By Murray then, now aka MAX | July 24, 2008 | 0 comments
Seed Salon :The Transcript:The father of cognitive neuroscience and the original New Journalist discuss status, free will, the human condition, and The Interpreter.
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TW:"Anyway, this was something before I'd ever heard of neuroscience, and I said, "There must be something in the brain that registers this, your status in every kind of situation." And I kept looking for it. Freud had been such a powerful figure that everyone seemed to think, "Freud's got the bottom line, why should we go through all these complicated neurons and everything to see how he got there. He's got it." I hoped to find the answer in Delgado's book, but it wasn't really there. It wasn't until I ran across your concept of the Interpreter that I thought, "Hey, maybe we've got it.""