Science is on the cusp of determining that there is a physiological basis for everything we think and feel. It is but a short hop further away from declaring, like Nietzsche of God, that free will is dead. Soon our every impulse will be traced to a neurotransmitter, our will reduced to a biochemical afterthought. CONSCIENCE OF THE MACHINE is both a critique and a defense of our conception of our identity at the precise moment that it comes under sharpest attack by scientific reductionism. The lives of troubled student Bobby Rosen, his ultra-competent teacher Emma Browne, and the brilliant...
Science is on the cusp of determining that there is a physiological basis for everything we think and feel. It is but a short hop further away from de...