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To all outward appearances, Elliot is a perfectly normal middle-aged businessman. Despite an operation a decade ago for removal of a benign brain tumor the size of a small orange, he remains intelligent and seemingly rational, with a wry sense of humor. Yet his behavior makes it clear that...
It stands to reason that humans would have a specialized region of the brain for processing emotional perceptions and memories: if our distant ancestors hadn't had an instant and violent reaction to danger, they would not have lived very long. But other parts of the brain are apparently also...
A.A.'s fundamental principles are also coming in for criticism. For some people, A.A.'s spiritual overtones present problems. (Step Two of the famous Twelve Steps requires recognizing "a Power greater than ourselves.") Rational Recovery, which began in 1986 as a secular alternative to A.A., claims groups in some 600...
Such name-calling, while perhaps enjoyable and certainly expedient, does nothing to advance rational discourse on an issue of such importance. The children of this nation deserve better than this. Senator Dole has given us the opportunity to address a pressing issue that affects us all of us. If we...
In our era, it would seem that one partof the human brain, the rational part, which hasmade all these morally neutral discoveries, hasundergone exceptional development, while the otherpart, which should be alert to ensure that thesediscoveries really serve humanity and will notdestroy it, has lagged behind catastrophically.