Maybe a better way to phrase this is if neuroscience is actually advancing anything in terms of real world effect?
I keep looking at dementia work and it’s just depressing, all this effort into understanding and it seems like hardly anything has reached down to the level of improving/changing day to day lives.
The “mental health” stuff is obviously low hanging fruit to attack, but even basic questions like “How can I improve my memory?” or “How can we communicate better?” is still just fodder for stupid self help books and advice websites, with very little consistent, repeatable impact.
Guys like Huberman are making a killing pitching to a tiny percentage of individuals who his suggestions work for, and nearly none of those people will have actual physiological changes consistent with the “neuroscience” part of the claims.
What’s going on here?
I’m feeling like there’s some massive social impact somewhere that I’m somehow overlooking but can’t recall anything. Nearly every single context I can think to argue this from is an enablement of psychiatric constructs, rather than something substantive on it’s own.
Why does neuroscience generally feel like a passenger to everything else’s constructs instead of a science in it’s own right?