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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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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Is the philosophy of neuroscience necessarily materialistic?
The field of neuroscience is quite popular today, as our technology developments allows us for much more depth of research of the brain every passing day.
I understand neuroscience as the field that ...
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What might be the daily experience of someone who does not have an orientation association area?
The orientation association area gives us a sense of our body in time and space.
What would it be like without this part of the brain assuming everything else works normally?
Can the brain ...
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Philosophy of anti-thinking: What does it feel like to consciously not think about X?
Take apples as an example:
When we think of apples, we think of e.g. a round shaped object that is red and is juicy.
But when we are not thinking about apples, we are either not aware we are ...
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