Category Archives: Neurophilosophy of Consciousness
← Universal Holism and Individualized Reductionism. The BPS Model Revisited.* “A BioPsychoSocial (BPS) Model of Reality, an Update.” Posted on January 29, 2018by Dr.d “A BioPsychoSocial (BPS) Model of Reality, an Update.” Introduction. The quest for finding the all encompassing, final theory of everything in … Continue reading
“A BioPsychoSocial (BPS) Model of Reality, an Update.”
“A BioPsychoSocial (BPS) Model of Reality, an Update.” Introduction. The quest for finding the all encompassing, final theory of everything in reality (TOE) continues un-abated. The front runners’ current effort seems to be resting on the premise that the final … Continue reading
Universal Holism and Individualized Reductionism. The BPS Model Revisited.*
Universal Holism and Individualized Reductionism I What is the difference, if any, between my individualized personal experience and those of the social group I identify with? Is the experience of the group the reliable sum total of the individual participant’s … Continue reading
“REALITY, LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS.”
For most of you either retired or with part-time jobs, who spend leisure hours browsing on the I-net, probably the most frequent theme you come across is about “what is reality” or what is “to be conscious”.? The main reason … Continue reading
“The Metaphysical Onion Layers of Existential Reality.”
“The Metaphysical ‘Onion Layers’ of Existential Reality, a Critical Analysis of its Ectodermal, Mesodermal and Endodermal Layers Derivatives. Between Ontological Nominalism and Epistemological Transcendentalism.” Introduction It has been known from the time of Cicero that human behavior has … Continue reading
Amazon Book Review on Richard Bernstein’s “Evil”
I am surprised that both the author and the book reviewer take opposite and extreme positions (rational<–> emotional) on the question of mesoscopic existential reality, criticizing in the process the time honored analysis of Emmanuel Kant in “Critique of Pure … Continue reading
A Critical Analysis of Real Time Existential Reality in our Vital Biosphere.
A Critical Analysis of Real Time Existential Reality in our Vital Biosphere.* This brief note is yet another attempt to clarify an unnecessary cognitive confusion among scholars with the subtle differences between the ontological and the epistemological domains; the measured/observed … Continue reading
Answering the critics. Back to basics.
“Is there anything sacred or secretive or mystical or metaphysical or supra/super natural here about conscious behaviors (as some one recently raised objections to such physical allusions to sacred consciousness, or was it sacred behaviors?)?” Reply: To the extent that only a living … Continue reading
A Critical Analysis of Real Time Existential Reality in our Vital Biosphere.*
Thanks RKS for bringing into focus several necessary constitutive components of quotidian existential reality as experienced/narrated in our real time spatial ecosystem environment (‘behavioral phenotype’). It is clear that the historical account of such narrative is a function of … Continue reading
Reconciling the immanent/pragmatic ‘now’ with transcendental but probable ‘tomorrow’.
Reconciling the immanent/pragmatic ‘now’ with the transcendental but probable ‘tomorrow’. A critical analysis of statements by distinguished experts in neurophilosophy of consciousness. Statement 1: “Tolerance and empathy are not the same thing,” Twenge said. “Millennials believe that everyone can live … Continue reading
