Tag: Max Velmans
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Neuroscience as Science of Thought?
Nowadays one can often hear that neuroscience can explain everything about a human being. The external physical world interacts with human sensory systems, natural neural nets in the brain get excited and this in turn causes excitation of muscles. Modern science has found nothing else in a human body, hence when we would like to…
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Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?
The title is taken from Max Velmans, Where experiences are: Dualist, physicalist, enactive and reflexive accounts of phenomenal consciousness, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Number 4 (2007), 547-563 In the paper, the reflexive model of perception is suggested. “In most respects Figure 3 is the same as Figures 1 and 2. As before,…