The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
By choosing Churchland as the first in the field of philosophy involving the mind and the brain to debate, I’m handing a compliment. At the time that I first wrote this page she was one of the best that I had read and often closest to the truth. (Now the best I have read at this point is Daniel C. Dennett: Consciousness Explained is moving in the right direction and takes very few wrong turns.) A very good writer, she is quite adept at showing the various conflicting explanations for various phenomena and is diplomatic enough to give a fair airing of ideas that might be considered by some as flaky or disrespectful of the power of science while keeping her focus on logic. She is looking in the right general direction for the answers.
I do not have the patience to comment on some of the other philosophers in this arena who are so far from the truth that it will be like arguing religion. (In some cases it is arguing religion — for instance when arguing Chalmers.)
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Many of the problems of medicine, biology, psychology and philosophy require an understanding of the basic mathematical principles behind how the nervous system does what it does to achieve function and experience, and that mathematics is not explained using narrowly-focused statistics. Understanding how this math works will be the tool for the discovery of many answers of great importance to humanity. The case for this concept and the offering of an explanation of this kind of math is made in the many essays of this website.
On these pages you will find ideas that should haunt you. Included are new concepts in science, medicine, sociology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy and more...
This website and the podcasts of Everyone's Revolution explain how the brain creates the mind, but many side issues must be resolved in order to teach this material. Once you realize that the "hard problems" are really the first problems to be answered, you then have a tool for changing all of science and medicine by explaining a massive number of discoveries that will fall into line in order to unify the evidence. All of the evidence is good. The interpretations of the evidence are mistaken in many cases. For ten years now there have been new discoveries of evidence that all move in the direction of supporting this theory (or this school of many theories) and its predictions. Quite a few people have started to pay attention to this theory as well.
