people are more willing to accept bad psychology explanations if they include irrelevant brain facts...neuroscience is especially effective as a rhetorical distractor...seductive details...unlimited jargon...reductionist & materialist explanations...
If the world is at base a primary flux of matter without form or constant, then things are always a temporary product of a channelling of this flux in what Deleuze and Guattari call ‘assemblages’ or ‘arrangements’...
Isn't it strange that our desire for newer and ever more dazzling media machines is equaled only by our wish to escape them? Innovations in media have always been driven by the desire to overcome mediation.