MIND’S MATTER – and the problem of scientific inquiry
“...the mind is not the brain but what the brain does, and not even everything the brain does, such as metabolizing fat and giving off heat” (Pinker, 1997, p. 24).
Mind is a process, “a special kind of process depending on special arrangements of matter” (Edelman, 1992, p. 7).
“Science has, for many centuries, had difficulty in dealing with the mind. Proper scientific inquiry assumed processes that excluded, as much as possible, intentionality.”
“Science manipulates things and refuses to inhabit them” (Merleau-Ponty, 1964).