This article does a good job at (quickly and briefly) revealing the inadequacies of grand judgments based on neuroscience (also called neurobabble, or neurotrash by some). Neuroscience is fascinating stuff, but its claims are often so far-reaching as to give pause to anyone taking them seriously.

“The fact is, of course, that anything at all which we experience, whether it does or does not have causal determinants in the outside world, has to be experienced through our brains. Which means that you will find neural correlates for literally everything that human beings do or think. Because that’s what the brain is for: to do stuff and think about stuff.”