Timeline for Are there promising scientific research avenues that could ultimately help resolve the debate on the nature of the mind? [closed]
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| Nov 16 at 3:16 | vote | accept | user80226 | ||
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| Nov 16 at 1:01 | answer | added | Kristian Berry | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 15 at 22:02 | comment | added | Conifold | SEP, Philosophy of Neuroscience discusses much of the relevant research and its philosophical significance. | |
| Nov 15 at 21:52 | comment | added | Him | @user80226 it is worth noting that the mind/body problem predates rigorous scientific method and neuroscience specifically by literally millenia. So, the corpus of work identifying mind/body duality as a problem before we were able to even begin to quantify such things is absolutely enormous. Still, at 40, I have not been alive at a time when neuroscientists weren't almost universally satisfied as to the answer to the mind/body question. | |
| Nov 15 at 21:48 | comment | added | user80226 | @Him So what do you make of the whole field of philosophy of mind? See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind | |
| Nov 15 at 21:47 | comment | added | Him | No, because neuroscientists don't see a problem here. From a neuroscience perspective, your mind is so much grey and white matter and electrical potentials and chemical gradients, and this has been a consensus for many, many years. Anyone who is still asking in 2024 "when will science solve this problem?" doesn't actually want the solution that science is putting forward. | |
| Nov 15 at 21:28 | comment | added | Syed | Philosophy by itself has never resolved any debate on any matter in the world. Only science has. Yes, the scientific method is a philosophy technically, but the point is that merely thinking about something never gets you anywhere. Once those thoughts turn into experiments, it becomes science. Can you name one matter that was ever resolved by pure thought and without empiricism? (barring trivial things such as 2+2 not being 5). | |
| Nov 15 at 21:09 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | Well, dualism is unfalsifiable, so no. They can maintain that dualism is true no matter how well we manage to explain how the brain works and linking consciousness to that. And neuroscience is trucking along on the journey of explaining that. So... yes? The mind-body problem is approached more effectively through science than philosophy, given all the results science has already delivered in that area. | |
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| Nov 15 at 21:04 | comment | added | tkruse | Yes, that's what scientists do. They are not waiting on philosophy. All science is promising. It just may take another 500 years. That's no less promising though | |
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