Biology of mind: in search of its fundamental premises*
Alejandro Villaseñor Becerra
General Hospital 196, Mexican Institute of Social Security
biologoavb@yahoo.com
Abstract
The last frontier of the biological sciences—their ultimate challenge—is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember. However, biological sciences lacks of an explicit and reflective framework from which biologists of mind can build a unified theory of mental life. Nowadays, there is no biological framework that offers a coherent scheme to explain the beginnings of mental life and how mental life works. Although Edelman (2003) and Crick and Koch (2003) respectively have proposed a biological framework, it is necessary to begin by building a unified biological framework from fundamental premises. In order to find the fundamental premises of a possible unified and biological framework on mental life, the Singerian-Churchmanian inquiry system was applied. The results obtained from this inquiry system permitted me to propose four fundamental premises to build a unified biological framework.
*Cita según la APA: Villaseñor, B.A. 2011. Byology of mind: in search of its fundamental premises. Reporte de Investigación no publicado, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ecatepec, México.
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