Neurotudományok és a tudat
Neurosciences and consciousness

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important challenges facing the natural sciences and philosophy today consists in understanding the human brain, as well as human consciousness. These two tendencies of research, each confronting its own almost insurmountable difficulties, are by no means synonymous, as the author critically argues. Consciousness, subjective experience, conceptual understanding and our personal epistemic involvement in our world are dealt with by the branch of philosophy which goes by the name of philosophy of mind (Bewusstseinsphilosophie, Philosophie des Geistes). On its turn, the brain as a physical entity is studied by neuroscientists with empirical methods. However, according to the sceptical argument presented by the author, there are no signs that these two fundamental directions of research would tend to converge in any way.

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