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Today we are generally convinced that mind and body are two substances that are specifically different, autonomous, and that the mind is separate from the body, according to the Cartesian dualist view expressed by the Oxford English Dictionary in defining the term “mind.”1 But this point of view has been challenged over the last twenty years by the dizzying advances of new discoveries in neuroscience, which have led to the emergence of the position according to which “our minds are in solid flesh.” 2 This growing rejection of Cartesian dualism has led many to fall into the temptation to adopt the materialist monism of contemporary mechanist reductionism, which holds that thoughts are somatic by-products of the material body. According to this point of view, there is only matter, bodies, and no immaterial or intellectual realities, or spirit. It is, therefore, necessary today to seek a third way that explains the substantial unity of the mind-body compound and harmonizes the immaterial and intellectual character of the mind and the somatic character of the brain, because only in this way are the basic concepts from which neuroscience starts sufficiently explained, and neuroscience freed from initial inconsistencies. This third way is traveled by the Neo-Aristotelianism of the third millennium, which, as in the Greek myth, navigates between “the Scylla of materialism [mechanist reductionism] and the Charybdis of dualism,” as Gyula Klima puts it. This research, therefore, explores this third way with the aim of finding a consistent and correct explanation of the substantial unity of the mind-body compound, which, as my research will aim to prove, is the only thesis currently being debated that has the power to rid neuroscience of the danger of falling into inconsistency at its initial starting points.
3Mental Representations and the Mind-Brain Relationship (1).docx
Grand Canyon University, 2022
Mental Representations and the Mind-Brain Relationship This paper investigates the mental representation of the mind-brain relationship from the perspectives of psychoanalytic purpose, relations theory, and cognitive developmental psychology, as well as the congruence between these formulations and research and theory in cognitive science or social cognition. In the long-term, patient treatment of severely disturbed adolescents and young adults, the concept of mental representation is applied to the study of psychopathology personality evaluation, social interactions of connection styles, and therapeutic gain. Recognizing the growth of the individual's personality, psychopathology is viewed in a more positive light through therapeutic technique. What research examines the evolution of mental representations or cognitive, affective design to become a major aspect of personality development and group formation? With cognitive neurological knowledge gleaned from the study of philosophy during the past century, the mind-body or mind-brain phenomenon will be accessible to discussion. Since Descartes, no one has unscientifically advocated an alternative real-world perspective on this issue. Researchers and thinkers have uncovered several ways, but none of them have promoted the advancement of intellectuals' inferiority. The separation between an individual's mind and consciousness is rarely examined or discussed during a person's daily labor, nonetheless, it is the root source of most of our existing difficulties. This is not even a known reality, as awareness and mind are a single entity. Still, separation is essential to existence. It is what exposes the materialist to the mind reader, potentially separating humanity from a gradually integrated middle ground. This paper will address whether the mind and brain are totally connected or if they are distinct entities. Motivated by the application of theoretical tools to brain analysis, but human biological constructions, researchers began researching the activity of the human brain.
[Mind and Brain in Philosophy and Neurosciences]
Journal of the Siena Academy of Sciences
After a brief review of the solutions given to the mind-body problem by philosophers I propose a naturalistic-materialistic solution that is based on a collaboration between the philosophy of mind and neurosciences. According to this solution the three fundamental characteristics of every human state of consciousness-that is, having a content and being conscious and self-conscious-are identified with three higher order properties of brain dynamics from an ontological point of view, although each of them can be described and explained in the language of neuroscience, cognitive psychology and folk-psychology.
From data processing to mental organs: An interdisciplinary path to cognitive neuroscienceFNx08
Mens Sana Monographs, 2011
Human brain is a highly evolved coordinating mechanism in the species Homo sapiens. It is only in the last 100 years that extensive knowledge of the intricate structure and complex functioning of the human brain has been acquired, though a lot is yet to be known. However, from the beginning of civilisation, people have been conscious of a 'mind' which has been considered the origin of all scientific and cultural development. Philosophers have discussed at length the various attributes of consciousness. At the same time, most of the philosophical or scientific frameworks have directly or indirectly implied mind-body duality. It is now imperative that we develop an integrated approach to understand the interconnection between mind and consciousness on one hand and brain on the other. This paper begins with the proposition that the structure of the brain is analogous, at least to certain extent, to that of the computer system. Of course, it is much more sophisticated and complex. The second proposition is that the Chomskyean concept of 'mental organs' is a good working hypothesis that tries to characterise this complexity in terms of an innate cognitive framework. By following this dual approach, brain as a data processing system and brain as a superstructure of intricately linked mental organs, we can move toward a better understanding of 'mind' within the framework of empirical science. The one 'mental organ' studied extensively in Chomskyean terms is 'language faculty' which is unique in its relation to brain, mind and consciousness.
Hussain Publications , 2022
This book, like many that came before it, is merely informative. I am here to offer not just knowledge, but a different perspective upon the mind, the psyche, and our amazing brains. Our brains are imperfect computers, that is the best way to put it. The brain has not only drawn attention to scientists and scholars of the past, but we are still learning on a day-to-day basis from our own brains. In this book, I speak on the topic of our mind, our dreams, our conscious senses, our influences, our passions, our desires, our behaviors, and the causations of these phenomena. Essentially what makes us, us. Now let me ask you questions along the journey as you read this book. These are guide questions to get you in a mindset that fits the information that will proceed. The first question I would like to ask is, how often do you think you use your brain? Ok ok, maybe I should be a little clearer, I am asking for a number, how many thoughts or decisions do you think you make in a day requiring cognitive effort. Answer that in your head and let us move on to question two. Wait, did I just hear you reading this to yourself in your head. Try to be a little quieter. Ok, for real this time, question two, how often do you appreciate and thank your brain for what it does. After all, your brain has the autonomic center for respiration and the constant beating of your heart, and you are reading this with your eyes which connect to the occipital lobe of your brain at the very back which contains the primary visual cortex to process images and motion and the rods and cones of your eyes which absorb the incoming light. Ok, let me take a breath, I am getting ahead of myself and we have not even chipped the surface of this colossal iceberg which you will come to know as the brain. Not only is the brain who we are, but it is what we are. We are about 100 billion neurons. That is it, nothing more, and nothing less