philosophical // philosophische Q&A

mit / with Prof. Georg Northoff

You call for or a “Copernican revolution”: not the subject and the thus brain/mind is at the center of our world, but the brain/mind is embedded in the world. What do you mean by this?

You argue that the “hard problem of consciousness” is based on Cartesian intuitions.  How do you wish to get rid of the hard problem?

Whitehead argued that for Kant the world emerges from the subject, and in his own philosophy the subject emerges from the world. Is your theory similar to Whitehead’s view?

You have done research on the relationship of cortical mid-line structures and the sense of self. Do you believe that the “self” can be located at specific brain structures?

What is the Brain? How can such “Grey Pulpy Gruesome Device” yield mental features like Self and its changes?

philosophical // philosophische Q&A

What is the Brain? How can such “Grey Pulpy Gruesome Device” yield mental features like Self and its changes?

You call for or a “Copernican revolution”: not the subject and the thus brain/mind is at the center of our world, but the brain/mind is embedded in the world. What do you mean by this?

You argue that the “hard problem of consciousness” is based on Cartesian intuitions.  How do you wish to get rid of the hard problem?

Whitehead argued that for Kant the world emerges from the subject, and in his own philosophy the subject emerges from the world. Is your theory similar to Whitehead’s view?

You have done research on the relationship of cortical mid-line structures and the sense of self. Do you believe that the “self” can be located at specific brain structures?