Abstract
In this paper, a number of outdated but still prevailing medical doctrines are critically reviewed, in particular, Hippocrates’s hypothesis of the brain as a repository of all mental processes; I.M. Sechenov’s hypothesis of the psyche as a derivate of the brain reflexes; I.P. Pavlov’s hypothesis of the higher nervous activity as an equivalent of the psyche. In his research, the author refers to studies of feral children, studies of memory and subliminal perception, discovery of mirror neurons and contemporary views of the academic science on information. The author proves the non-materiality of the psyche and the role of the brain as a biological interface between the ideal and the real. The new approach would require changing the traditional paradigm as well as all our approaches to studying the psyche and treating mental disorders.
Highlights
IDEAS LIVE THEIR OWN LIFE The geocentric system by Claudius Ptolemy, according to which the Earth is the centre of the Universe, and all other stars and planets are revolving around it, was born in II A.D. and persisted for 15 centuries
We are not far from this fallacy ourselves, when we focus our scientific interests on the synaptic cleft and looking for the psyche in it
Pavlov, who developed the notion of the second signal system – the author of the current paper suggested a hypothesis of the brain as the biological interface in 2008 (8, 9)
Summary
IDEAS LIVE THEIR OWN LIFE The geocentric system by Claudius Ptolemy, according to which the Earth is the centre of the Universe, and all other stars and planets are revolving around it, was born in II A.D. and persisted for 15 centuries.
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