[Marxism] Neuroscience: Who's got the PET?

["Jeff Rubard" <jeffrubard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:27:08 -0500
> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Marx as Left of the Marxists
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>>(4) A bad understanding of the human psyche and human psychology, as part
>> of
>>an inability to integrate (1) the findings of modern science about human
>>development, sexual development and spiritual development, linguistics,
>>ecology etc. (2) the insights of other socialist and leftwing tendencies
>> and
>>movements.
>
> The only bad understanding about human psychology that I can think of is
> misguided attempts to synthesize Marx and Freud. Thankfully, those days
> are
> behind us except for certain small-circulation journals still influenced
> by
> the Frankfurt school.

Ohhh, no, they already took *Telos* away from me but if you were to examine
the contemporary state of cognitive science you'd soon discover that
neuroscience's difficulties with mathematics are still greater than even
other
physical sciences.  Really, this is absolutely not true -- nobody has any
kind of
decent understanding of what would be necessary for a unified theory of the
"mind/brain", such that Freud actually still looks pretty good (if, uh,
not particularly
political).  An as for "thoroughgoing materialism" being the order of the
day, I suspect
most McCullochites cannot even be bothered to read Vygotsky/Luria.





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