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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through From Genes to Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?
(a) Because models of brain activity do not replicate the sense of 'being there' inside the brain.
(b) Because scientists are limited in the experiments they can perform on human beings.
(c) Because consciousness is always shifting and cannot be modeled.
(d) Because living and reproducing do not require self-understanding.

2. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Arts.
(d) Humanities.

3. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Past and future.
(b) Material and ideal.
(c) Natural science and social science.
(d) Concept and fact.

4. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?
(a) Objective truth based on hypothesis.
(b) The mind of God.
(c) Probably hypothesis.
(d) Interesting hypotheses.

5. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.
(b) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.
(c) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.
(d) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?

2. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?

3. What did Laplace pioneer?

4. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?

5. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?

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