Mind-brain puzzle versus mind-physical world identity

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (3):348-349 (1978)
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Abstract

To maintain my neutral monist or multi-aspect view of human reality (or indeed to defend the Cartesian dualism assumed by Puccetti & Dykes, it is wrong to relate the mind to the brain alone. A person's mind should be related to the physical environment, including the body, in addition to the brain. Furthermore, we are unlikely to understand the detailed functioning of an individual brain without knowing the history of its interactions with the external and internal environments during that person's life, or indeed any inherited neurogenomics (circuitry innately adapted to ecology.

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David A. Booth
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