Anaximander and neurophilosophy

What is it about?

Anaximander from Miletus, in the sixth century BC, introduced the revolutionary issue that the universe was originated from the infinite, the boundless (άπειρον, Apeiron) in opposition to widely accepted mythological Hesiodian theories on cosmogony. In the fields of Astronomy and Cosmology, Anaximander introduced the idea that the Earth, is located in the center of the Universe. Trying to make a metaphor from the fields of Cosmology and Astronomy to the field of Neurosciences we would reasonably hypothesize that the geocentric theory by Anaximander symbolizes the encephalocentric theory in which the brain, the “hegemonicon”, the principal organ which rules and controls all the functions and the activities of the human body and soul is stable in the center of the human existence, giving the life force to the body, motivating and controlling all the activities of the human being and adjusting properly the human behavior.

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Why is it important?

Anaximander must be regarded, not only as a physical philosopher, metaphysician, a real scientist but also as a main theoretical pioneer in the field of Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy, clarifying that science is a continuous effort for unceasing thinking and the theoretical quest for approaching the truth.