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BS 198 Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Job of Phenomenology Is Critically Important

In your book, you argue that we can't ignore subjectivity. So is this where phenomenology comes in? One of the jobs of phenomenology is to get some precision and clarity about the description of subjective perience from within. As cognitive neuro scientists, we're interested in understanding the neural systems or processes that are critically important for our having a sense of self. But it means that phenomenology is critically important. Could say, method, logically, for getting a handle on the very phenomenon that we're trying to understand and investigate.

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