[mistersquid]

Thank you for your outline and response. The OP is fascinating, if flawed, blending as it does the domains of humanistic analysis (what you identify as "popular science writing dealing with neurotransmitters"), theoretical neurobiology, and (what I would call) cyborg ontology.

For me, its value lies in its efforts to articulate an "object" (M0) that exists across the boundaries of well-understood ontologies by combining empirical science, phenomenological analysis, and cultural theory (this last is not apparent and may be something I'm furnishing myself).

Your "ragging on this paper so harshly" is to my eyes a serious engaging of the article and its conclusions and helps triangulate its value.

So thank you.