Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 200-209Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.03.006
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R25 MH057541, R25 MH057541-14] Funding Source: Medline
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Although the ultimate aim of neuroscientific enquiry is to gain an understanding of the brain and how its workings relate to the mind, the majority of current efforts are largely focused on small questions using increasingly detailed data. However, it might be possible to successfully address the larger question of mind-brain mechanisms if the cumulative findings from these neuroscientific studies are coupled with complementary approaches from physics and philosophy. The brain, we argue, can be understood as a complex system or network, in which mental states emerge from the interaction between multiple physical and functional levels. Achieving further conceptual progress will crucially depend on broad-scale discussions regarding the properties of cognition and the tools that are currently available or must be developed in order to study mind-brain mechanisms.
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