With neuroscience it is about mapping and is different from experiments — Jack Cummins
Neuroscience is HARD science insofar as it can be backed up by medical evidence. However, there is a lot to be learned at this stage, especially as each person is unique. — Jack Cummins
This means that there is a complex interaction between brain chemicals and human interpretation of experiences. So, understanding human will and choice involves both science of the brain and a person's meanings. The latter is harder to formulate into science. The most positive way forward would involve quantitative and qualitative research, possibly involving the psychological therapies as well as forms of psychoactive medication. — Jack Cummins
:up: :up:Speculation is fun, but if you want to get serious you have to get your hands dirty and commit to the grind ;) — I like sushi
I don't expect to be able to make head nor tail of such books. But I would like to try. can you name some?I prefer the phenomenological approach (which I discovered reading cognitive neuroscience textbooks). — I like sushi
This is also in line with compatabilism, which sees determined and determining aspects of human consciousness. — Jack Cummins
How useful is this area of brain research to the debate between free will and determinism? — Jack Cummins
Do you think that self-mastery is possible? — Jack Cummins
Perhaps because "the puppet master" is merely a grammatical illusion (i.e. "doer" attributed to doing – "subject" of a predicate) that amounts to folk psychology's homunculus fallacy. Consider (e.g.) Buddha's anattā¹ ... Hume's bundle² ... Metzinger's PSM³ ... :chin:We have learned a bit about the strings and the pulling of them but are completely in the dark about the puppet master. — Manuel
However, the perspective which I am coming from is that of not viewing evolution as having been reached ultimately. — Jack Cummins
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