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Biological neuroscience is only as radical as the evolution of mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Terry Blumenthal  and
James Schirillo
Terry Blumenthal
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 {blumen;shirija}@wfu.edu
James Schirillo
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 {blumen;shirija}@wfu.edu
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Abstract

A biological neuroscientific theory must acknowledge that the function of a neurological system is to produce behaviors that promote survival. Thus, unlike what Gold & Stoljar claim, function and behavior are the province of neurobiology and cannot be relegated to the field of psychological phenomena, which would then trivialize the radical doctrine if accepted. One possible advantage of adopting such a (correctly revised) radical doctrine is that it might ultimately produce a successful, evolutionarily based, theory of mind.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 831
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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