Is a scientific explanation for the mind possible?
The “decade of the brain” has come and gone, and yet we are as far as we ever were from having an explanation for the phenomenon we know as “our mind”. Are we forced to accept that consciousness will never be fully explained? In his latest book, Michael Pauen shows us clearly that even if the problem in its current form seems unsolvable, the past suggests new ways of conceptualizing the future, possibly even surmounting the apparently hard-and-fast opposition between subjective experience and scientific insight. This deconstruction allows a comprehensive, naturalistic view of the mind – and thus enables a surprising solution.
