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The Brain and Consciousness

In Our Time: Science

CHAPTER

The Mind and the Brain

i am a thoroughgoing materialist, though i wouldn't say i was a reductive materialist. The problem for me is always to try to understand what i would call the translation rules between the language of brain and the language of mind. We are shaped by the polis, the political and moral dimensions of our lives finally determine the functional characteristics of that organ. A developed nural science will not ignore these things. It will recognize the need to to approach these with the proper reverence and respect.

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