ABSTRACT
Interests are difficult to justify. Many psychologists wish to trace the real-time mechanisms, instantiated ultimately in neurophysiological processes, that underlie such complex acts of intelligence as remembering and reasoning. Genuine successes in that enterprise would undoubtedly command the attention of all serious students of human nature. Still, one might come to psychology with presystematic curiosities other than how information is traded between different parts of the nervous system. In that case, insights into psychological processes will tend to be valued only to the extent that they satisfy or further articulate these other curiosities. I find myself in such a position.
