Concept
Neurophenomenology
Overview
Neurophenomenology refers to a scientific research program aimed at addressing the hard problem of consciousness in a pragmatic way. It combines neuroscience with phenomenology to study experience, mind, and consciousness with an emphasis on the embodied condition of the human mind. The field is very much linked to fields such as neuropsychology, neuroanthropology, and behavioral neuroscience (also known as biopsychology) and the study of phenomenology in psychology.
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Before considering modern theories, let us look first at consciousness from the standpoint of conventional psychology, since this embodies views which naturally occur when we begin to reflect upon the subject. For this purpose, let us as a preliminary consider different ways of being conscious. First, there is the way of PERCEPTION. We "perceive" tables and chairs, horses and dogs, our friends, traffic passing in…
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
States what Neurophenomenology is.
This change in the stimulus takes place under certain specifiable conditions, and the study of these conditions is a study of such processes as perceiving, attending, remembering, and deliberating, which are distinctively psychological in their nature. Processes of this kind, if taken as changes in stimuli, find an objective criterion in the adaptive behavior for the sake of which they occur, and they provide…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Close in meaning to Neurophenomenology; the term itself is not named.
Modern Science conceives of the matter in a very different way. _Brain and mind alike consist of simple elements, sensory and motor_. "All nervous centres," says Dr. Hughlings Jackson,[9] "from the lowest to the very highest (the substrata of consciousness), are made up of nothing else than nervous arrangements, representing impressions and movements.... I do not see of what other materials the brain _can_ be made."…
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
Close in meaning to Neurophenomenology; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Neurophenomenology
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Artificial intelligence
- Intentionality
- Epoché
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Mind
- Neuroscience
- Psychologism
- Experience
- Embodied cognition
- Consciousness
- Hard problem of consciousness
- Philosophy of mind
- Enactivism
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
- Francisco Varela
- Franz Brentano
- Pragmatism
- Edmund Husserl
- Hubert Dreyfus
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Neural oscillation
- Walter Jackson Freeman III
Place in the tradition
Part of Embodied cognition.