The mind-body problem today
Open Journal of Philosophy 1 (1):26-34 (2011)
| Abstract | 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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Cognitive Neuroscience Mind, brain Llinas, Libet, Frith epistemologically different worlds | |||||||||
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