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The problem of explaining the mind persists essentially unchanged today since the time of Plato and Aristotle. For the ancients, of course, it was not a question of the relation of mind to brain, though the question was fundamentally the same nonetheless. For Plato, the mind was conceived as distinct from the body and was posited in order to explain knowledge which transcends that available to the senses. For his successor, Aristotle, the mind was conceived as intimately related to the body as form is related to substance. On this conception, the mind is an abstract property or condition of the body itself -.
Topics include immortality; materlialism; Descartes's 'Divisibility Argument' for dualism; the Argument from introspection'; the problems with...
An old philosophical problem, the mind-body problem, has not been yet solved by philosophers or scientists.
Even if in cognitive neuroscience has been a stunning development in the last 20 years, the mind-body problem
remained unsolved. Even if the majority of researchers in this domain accept the identity theory from an ontological
viewpoint,
many
of
them
reject
this
position
from
an epistemological
viewpoint.
In
this context,
I
consider
that
it
is
quite
possible
the
framework
of
this
problem
to
be
wrong
and
this
is
the
main
reason
the
problem
could not be solved. I offer an alternative, the epistemologically different world’s perspective, which replaces
the world or the universe. In this new context, the mind-body problem becomes a pseudo-problem.
This is a review of a book that tries to re-establish mind-body dualism by using (a) empirical research on near-death experiences, placebo effects, creativity, claiming even that parapsychology should become a respected part of science, and (b) Frederic W. H. Myers' (1843-1901) metaphor of the brain as a kind of receiving device that records what the irreducible mind sends as messages. Among other things, we criticize the lack of philosophical clarity about mind-body relation, and question the book's tendency to refer to past and current parapsychological literature as reliable.
The mind-body problem concerns the relationship between mind and body, or nowadays - between mind or consciousness and the brain. As a relationship, this can be viewed from two perspectives: from body to mind and from mind to body. In this note I point out that the two readings of the problem are not symmetrical and that there are categorical differences between them. In particular, whereas the body to mind problem constitutes a mystery (cf. the contemporary hard problem), the mind to body problem may be approached from a psychological (as contrasted with philosophical) orientation that allows for concrete phenomenological investigation.
Discussion of Martin Carrier & J. Mittelstrass, Mind, Brain, Behavior: The Mind-Body Problem and the Philosophy of Psychology
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