Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter explores the recent history of cognitive neuropsychology through the lens of the technological sublime, a concept that captures how awe, spectacle, and ideology shape our responses to brain science. The chapter asks why certain scientific discoveries feel emotionally and philosophically powerful. It argues that this power lies not only in what is discovered but in how such discoveries are presented, framed, and understood. Cognitive neuropsychology, with its vivid imaging tools and dramatic claims, generates not just data but meaning. This meaning is often saturated with cultural assumptions about identity, agency, and control. Seven dimensions of the technological sublime are distributed across the chapter\u2019s main sections. Each dimension is anchored to key figures, theories, or controversies in contemporary cognitive neuropsychology. The chapter balances excitement with critique, showing how even the most stunning findings carry assumptions about what it means to be human. Ultimately, students are encouraged to reflect on the emotional and political appeal of brain-based explanations, and to consider what gets illuminated, and what remains obscured, when we gaze into the glowing image of the mind.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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