Abstract
The neural network in the human brain underlies the conceptual network in the mind. Sensations and primary and secondary concepts in the conceptual network correspond to integrative structures and lower-and higher-level associative structures in the neural network, respectively. Both networks co- evolve during biological evolution (phylogenesis) and individual development (ontogenesis). Subjective psyche and (self-) consciousness emerge when the cognitive center in the human brain becomes recurrently directed on itself (receives signals from itself, forms its own representation within itself). Matter (external world) corresponds to the region of the neural (conceptual) network that is not directed on itself, while the mind (self-consciousness) corresponds to the region of the neural (conceptual) network that is directed on itself. The very sharp separation/opposition within our psyche of the external word (physical reality) and internal world (content of our consciousness) results from the special kind of functional complexity of the human brain. We have only a very vague idea about what is “out there” in the “real” external world, as we have direct access only to our conceptual network. Matter does not matter and we should not mind the mind as much as we usually do. Generally, all of the main philosophical problems can essentially be reduced to human neurophysiology.
Highlights
The mind-body problem is perhaps the most important problem of philosophy, and perhaps even of human thought in general
Both networks coevolve during biological evolution and individual development
Korzeniewski 266 formulated in such a way that it concerns the relation between the mind and matter
Summary
The mind-body problem is perhaps the most important problem of philosophy, and perhaps even of human thought in general. The conceptual network constitutes an epiphenomenon (result of supervenience) or functional aspect (or a “by-product”) of the neural network in the human brain, the result of a certain specific kind of dynamic complexity of the latter. It is in turn composed of particular, better or worse specified, separated concepts that mean by connotation, that is, by relation to each other. In the present work, both consciousness and self-consciousness are frequently referred to as (self-) consciousness
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