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Brain Myth #1: A Brain Theory is Years Away

Brain science has made great progress toward understanding the brain. Valuable data and a clearer understanding are obtained daily — in neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging and the rest of the brain sciences. A great deal of valuable knowledge has been accumulated. However what’s missing is theoretical understanding — in particular a cognitive neuroscience theoretical framework…

Brain Myth #2: Study the Physical Brain Only to Understand it

Brain knowledge is essential to its understanding. This includes the structure and function of neurons, neurochemicals, dendrites, synapses, neural networks and ensembles, large scale neural synchrony, and coordinated neural oscillation. But the physical is only half the story…

Learning a New Paradigm

Historically, new paradigms in science have been slow to gain traction. Einstein’s relativity for example was a radical new view of how the universe operates — fundamentally different from Newton’s. It was largely ignored by the physics community for decades. Why are new paradigms slow to catch on? Because a new paradigm is an entirely new system of thought…

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    Protected: What is the Mind?

    From a scientific perspective the human mind remains a mystery. There’s no consensus on what a mental state or process is, or consists of. Neither an agreed-upon definition, nor parts list of it, exists (Poldrack & Yarkoni, 2016)…

    However I argue the basics of the subjective mind are not only easy to understand, but common knowledge.

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