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The Epistemic Paradox of Mind and Matter
Author(s) -
MOROWITZ HAROLD J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05706.x
Subject(s) - consciousness , pauli exclusion principle , epistemology , living matter , cognitive science , philosophy , psychology , computer science , physics , artificial intelligence , living systems , quantum mechanics
A bstract : The attempt to posit independent mind and matter results in an unavoidable circularity. We propose to accept this circularity and then explore the steps from the various “constructs” of matter to those biological structures associated with mind. This enables us to explore the hierarchical levels of emergence that take us from the periodic table of the elements to consciousness as it develops in the evolutionary radiation. The possibility of undiscovered principles of the same epistemological status as the Pauli exclusion principle is discussed.