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The Spontaneous Brain - From the Mind-Body to the World-Brain Problem (Hardcover)
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The Spontaneous Brain - From the Mind-Body to the World-Brain Problem (Hardcover)
Series: The Spontaneous Brain
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An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of
mental features-a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes
the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body
problem-whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness
to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical
answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and
free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new
solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the
problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically,
and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and
reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by
addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the
relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider
the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This
calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point-from within the mind
or brain to beyond the brain-in our consideration of mental
features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and
philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the
brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are
central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world.
This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond
itself into body and world, creating the "world-brain relation"
that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in
empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He
discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to
recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and
proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition
for consciousness.
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