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	For the last few years, all things ‘neuro’ have been doing the rounds in the creative arts and humanities. We have had the declensions ‘neuropolitics’ and ‘noopolitics’; we have panicked about screen media and the internet rewiring our plastic brains; we have marvelled at artists incorporating MRIs into videos, photomedia and installations. Little wonder at such a response – after all, weren’t the 1990s officially declared, by [http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/proclaim.html US Presidential proclamation] to be the ‘Decade of the Brain’? Neuroscience – the collective nomenclature we give the sciences of the brain  – is in fact a disparate assemblage of disciplines, methods and practices for understanding, healing, transposing, interpreting, imaging and, most importantly, constituting the nervous system in organisms. To get a sense of how diverse these sciences are, we can simply draw up a small list of some of them: for example, neuroanatomy, behavioural neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neuroethnology, molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and so on. These all designate various specialities within neuroscience but also, sometimes vastly different methods, philosophical approaches and indeed ways of realising the brain as organ, system, structure or entity. Within or across any of these specialities, competing and dissonant approaches to how the nervous system is seen to function exist. A decade, indeed more than a century, of practice and research in neuroscience has only multiplied the neural as a vast field of unknown quanta and qualia. <br><br>		For the last few years, all things ‘neuro’ have been doing the rounds in the creative arts and humanities. We have had the declensions ‘neuropolitics’ and ‘noopolitics’; we have panicked about screen media and the internet rewiring our plastic brains; we have marvelled at artists incorporating MRIs into videos, photomedia and installations. Little wonder at such a response – after all, weren’t the 1990s officially declared, by [http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/proclaim.html US Presidential proclamation] to be the ‘Decade of the Brain’? Neuroscience – the collective nomenclature we give the sciences of the brain  – is in fact a disparate assemblage of disciplines, methods and practices for understanding, healing, transposing, interpreting, imaging and, most importantly, constituting the nervous system in organisms. To get a sense of how diverse these sciences are, we can simply draw up a small list of some of them: for example, neuroanatomy, behavioural neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neuroethnology, molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and so on. These all designate various specialities within neuroscience but also, sometimes vastly different methods, philosophical approaches and indeed ways of realising the brain as organ, system, structure or entity. Within or across any of these specialities, competing and dissonant approaches to how the nervous system is seen to function exist. A decade, indeed more than a century, of practice and research in neuroscience has only multiplied the neural as a vast field of unknown quanta and qualia. <br><br>
	It seems important to emphasise this point, although neuroscientists and especially neurologists – those practicing a branch of medicine that deals with disorders affecting the nervous system of, mainly, human organisms – will happily admit that they only know how [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=people-only-use-10-percent-of-brain&page=2 10%] of the brain works. It is important to emphasise this because ‘neuroscience’ – when it appears in discussion in the media, but also within public and academic intellectual debate – outside the neuroscience context, can often appear like the incontrovertible truth about: thought, consciousness, interiority and sometimes even all of (lived) experience. Neuroscientific ‘results’ are dragged, kicking and screaming, into the debate about how, for example, ‘youth’ are being rewired by online gaming or surfing the web. Often, these results are backed up by the power of the neuroimage, which seems to causally locate social, emotional or cognitive behaviour ‘in’ some specified red area in the brain. In our popular imaginary, neuroscience has become the new genetics. <br><br>		It seems important to emphasise this point, although neuroscientists and especially neurologists – those practicing a branch of medicine that deals with disorders affecting the nervous system of, mainly, human organisms – will happily admit that they only know how [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=people-only-use-10-percent-of-brain&page=2 10%] of the brain works. It is important to emphasise this because ‘neuroscience’ – when it appears in discussion in the media, but also within public and academic intellectual debate – outside the neuroscience context, can often appear like the incontrovertible truth about: thought, consciousness, interiority and sometimes even all of (lived) experience. Neuroscientific ‘results’ are dragged, kicking and screaming, into the debate about how, for example, ‘youth’ are being rewired by online gaming or surfing the web. Often, these results are backed up by the power of the neuroimage, which seems to causally locate social, emotional or cognitive behaviour ‘in’ some specified red area in the brain. In our popular imaginary, neuroscience has become the new genetics. <br><br>

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