The Enigmatic Deciphering of the Neuronal Code of Word Meaning

Many psychologists and neuroscientists still believe that brain events are causing conscious experiences and that this causal process can be revealed through the application of the methods of the natural sciences. Others, aware of the difficulties in accounting for the production of experiences on the basis of these methods, have postulated a process of “emergence” instead. Others still, also aware of the same difficulties, retreat to a sincere agnosticism and claim that the relation of brain events and conscious experiences lies beyond the reach of the methods of the natural sciences; consequently any attempts to elucidate it through such methods are pointless.

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