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Some philosophers entirely reject any notion of localization of function and thus believe fMRI studies to be profoundly misguided. [15] These philosophers maintain that brain processing acts holistically, that large sections of the brain are involved in processing most cognitive tasks (see holism in neurology and the modularity section below).
Hideto Tomabechi (brain science, psychophysics, bioinformatics, intelligent informatics, speech recognition, cognitive neuro-engineering) Francisco Varela (neuroscience, philosophy) Frans de Waal (ethology, primatology, psychology) Étienne Wenger (situated cognition, education) James V. Wertsch (cognitive psychology, cultural anthropology)
The computational theory of mind holds that the mind is a computational system that is realized (i.e. physically implemented) by neural activity in the brain. The theory can be elaborated in many ways and varies largely based on how the term computation is understood.
It was first proposed by the philosopher John Searle in 1980 and is defined by two main theses: 1) all mental phenomena, ranging from pains, tickles, and itches to the most abstruse thoughts, are caused by lower-level neurobiological processes in the brain; and 2) mental phenomena are higher-level features of the brain.
William Seager (philosopher) Adi Shankara; Lawrence Shapiro; Lady Mary Shepherd; J. J. C. Smart; Michael A. Smith (philosopher) Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) Baruch Spinoza; Daniel Stoljar; Emanuel Swedenborg
In the philosophy of mind, Leibniz's gap is the problem that thoughts cannot be observed or perceived solely by examining brain properties, events, and processes. Here the word "gap" is a metaphor of a subquestion regarding the mind–body problem that allegedly must be answered in order to reach a more profound understanding of qualia, consciousness and emergence.
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Paul Richard Thagard FRSC (/ ˈ θ eɪ ɡ ɑːr d /; born 1950) is a Canadian philosopher who specializes in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science and medicine. Thagard is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Waterloo. He is a writer, and has contributed to research in analogy and creativity ...