Questions tagged [neurophilosophy]
Neurophilosophy is an approach to philosophy that uses the methodological techniques and empirically driven results of neuroscience to answer philosophical problems. Central to neurophilosophy are questions regarding the true nature of the brain and its relation to the mind.
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How can we know if the Apollonian and Dionysian really exist?
I'm currently in the summer between my freshman and sophomore years. During the fall, I had a class on Oedipus Tyrannus and we read it with Aristotle, Freud, and Nietzche. I found many of the ...
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Is quantum mechanics relevant/irrelevant to explain conscious processes?
According to the paper by Koch and Hepp The relation between quantum mechanics and higher brain functions: Lessons from quantum computation and neurobiology from 2007, quantum mechanics and its ...
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Is there any evidence to suggest that our conciousness regularly replaces itself?
I heard on some article that conciousness cannot persist through time and that every second ( or an even shorter duration ) it changes to a new one, is there any evidence to suggest this? Is our ...
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Can the Chinese room argument be used to make a case for dualism?
Suppose you have a conscious AI and you run its code by hand on a piece of paper. Would that AI still be conscious? If not, what is it about transistors that breathes life into an otherwise soulless ...
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Is AI capable of Hofstadter's anology?
In the book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, Hofstadter argues that analogy is a fundamental mechanism of neurocognition.
Now, I've been ...
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From the "inverted spectrum" to the "music transposed by 12" problem?
So here's an argument for category theory in neuroscience. He presents the inverted spectrum problem and yoneda lemma as its solution. I am abridging it:
We can order colours from long wavelength ...
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If some people don't have an internal monologue, is that a problem for arguments for the existence of other minds?
https://www.verywellmind.com/does-everyone-have-an-inner-monologue-6831748
All arguments in favor of the existence of other minds claim that other people have minds similar to my mind.
My mind is ...
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Is the pleasure of drugs better than long term achievements? [closed]
If there are currently drugs which release more dopamine and other chemicals in the brain on a level which cannot be replicated naturally, why aren't more people taking them, considering you cannot ...
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Brain states, morality and free will: What can we discern from the case of the schoolteacher who became a pedophile post-brain tumor?
Roughly 20 years ago, a disturbing story hit the news media: Nightmare experience for man whose cancer turned him into a pedophile.
The presence of an egg-sized brain tumour is claimed to have ...
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Could neurodiversity factors affect individuals' ability to understand various specific abstract concepts?
Wittgenstein was a philosopher who arrived at several insightful questions (e.g. the private-language problem) but seemed to range from clueless to superstitious about transfinite set theory. Non-...
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Experience as an initial value problem?
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The argument seems to say just as I have a physical initial value problem and with the laws of physics tell the time evolution, similarly, I can have an initial value problem of experience ...
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Why do I doubt my instincts and instead take a wrong decision for that task or situation though the answer or solution or strategy is within my reach?
I choose my instincts when doing something, but I doubt it and then do something else or something opposite. When reflecting back on it, I realize that my instincts were true. In short, why do I doubt ...
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What can be the cause for this mess I'm or the road to insanity I am on? Or is it that I am insane or with an unsound mind? [closed]
Why do I keep questioning myself; my mind and brain keep unfolding questions regarding my behaviour, constantly questioning my behaviour and intentions. Indefinitely doubt every bit and the part about ...
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Is peripheral attention an example of the intentionality of consciousness?
Suppose I fix my gaze on an object, say a flower. Without moving my eyes, keeping them fixed on the flower, so with the same exact visual experience, I can "direct my attention" towards ...
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According to Chalmers, can neuroscience resolve the "hard problem of consciousness"?
This is a question that aims to clarify Chalmers's "hard problem of consciousness".
Suppose one day neuroscientists figured out how exactly to reproduce all (or virtually all) human ...
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