What is it about?
Neuro and any other biological correlates of subjective, first-person experiences cannot offer any additional information about their qualities and contents (qualia).
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Why is it important?
It is a warning about the limitations of the neuro-reductionist metaphysical approach in explaining humans' feelings, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, etc.
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I hope more and more people will realize the limitations of the neuro-reductionist metaphysical approach in explaining humans' personal experiences and begin to consider alternative metapysical approaches.
Dr Patrizio E Tressoldi
Università di Padova
Reductionism is a powerful tool, but only a tool, with its advantags and limits. Considering it as the only right way to approach the world turns it into a form of dogmatic methodolatry or theology of paradigm. It was born to study the physical world, but it is not enough to study the world of subjectivity: this calls for a shift of paradigm. The evolution of philosophy and science from Descatrtes through Enlightenment to positivism and materialist-monism is flawed with several inadvertent cultural filters and prejudices, which should be recognized in order to rethink our scientific paradigm and make it better fit the reality: it is a hard but inescapable problem, endowed with huge epistemological and metaphysical implication.
Prof. Enrico Facco
Univeristy of Padua, Italy
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This page is a summary of: On the primacy and irreducible nature of first-person versus third-person information, F1000Research, February 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10752.1.
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