ABSTRACT
This chapter describes neuroscientific dystopia, Peter Reynaert have always promised a bright future for mankind, one in which science would play a distinctive role. Neuroscience would also play a prominent role in such utopias, since mental health and happiness are thought to be obtained by controlling the relevant brain processes behind them. The chapter argues that neuroscience runs the risk of becoming dystopic in a logical sense by committing a category-mistake. Husserl argued that the naturalistic understanding of human consciousness and mental processes as natural phenomena, that is, as brain-processes, is a fundamental theoretical mistake. The chapter distinguished absurdity from both sense and nonsense. Nonsense involves a combination of expressions, and hence meanings, from different syntactic categories, and results in meaningless expressions such as: a round or or a man is. The chapter illustrates how applies to naturalism's analysis of embodiment. It also describes the potentially harmful effects of category mistake for the problem of free will.
