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Alan Baumeister

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The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences.

Journal of the history of the neurosciences 2024 Alan Baumeister

Understanding and characterizing the relationship between mental phenomena and the brain is a huge challenge for modern neuroscience. No doubt, the conservative orthodox view of this relationship can be described as physicalist. Physicalism is the idea that, no matter how enigmatic mental phenomena may seem, they are nevertheless completely describable in physical and material terms. Still,...