Bernd Lindemann: 2 books
Mechanisms in World and Mind
Perspective Dualism, Systems Theory, Neuroscience, Reductive Physicalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The topic of the reduction of mental processes to biophysical mechanisms touches at the core of the mindbody problem, a puzzle in the philosophy of mind since the days of Descartes. This book is about philosophical aspects of neuroscience, centred on perspective dualism. The topic unfolds in the discussion...
A whole affects its parts?
Bottom-up and top-down changes reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Can a whole change its components top-down? With a whole constituted of components (or parts), top-down changes should originate at the whole (assigned to system level n) and affect the components at the level below (level n-1, “the bottom”). Top-down experiments search for such changes in natural...