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OUR BRAINS ARE NOT US
Author(s) -
GLAN WALTER
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01727.x
Subject(s) - neuroethics , brain function , cognitive science , mind–body problem , function (biology) , psychology , neuroscience , epistemology , biology , philosophy , evolutionary biology
ABSTRACT Many neuroscientists have claimed that our minds are just a function of and thus reducible to our brains. I challenge neuroreductionism by arguing that the mind emerges from and is shaped by interaction among the brain, body, and environment. The mind is not located in the brain but is distributed among these three entities. I then explore the implications of the distributed mind for neuroethics.