"When I think about why a physiological explanation for human behavior is more interesting to me than a philosophical one, I always say that the philosophical, or as it evolves in the 20th century, you get the psychological, and they're sort of the same thing for a little while. Psychology's incredibly useful science, but in a lot of cases, it's an outside-in science. The brain is actually an inside-out mechanism."
"If you're interested in human performance, what you want is something that's reliable and repeatable, and thus you want neurobiology because neurobiology gives you mechanism."
Neurobiology provides reliable, repeatable mechanisms for optimizing human performance, whereas psychology and philosophy function as metaphors rather than mechanistic explanations. Psychology often approaches behavior from an outside-in perspective, while the brain operates from the inside-out, making biological approaches more directly actionable. Personality differences limit the generalizability of psychologically based training, but neurobiological mechanisms are conserved across humans and thus provide more uniform targets. Understanding brain networks enables engineering of peak states such as flow, creativity, and focused attention. Measurable neurobiological interventions create pathways to train and reproduce high-performance states with greater consistency.
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