Homunculism
Homunculism
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/21/homunculism/
Contemporary brain science is thus rife with unwarranted homunculus talk, presented as if it were sober established science. We have discovered that nerve fibers transmit electricity. We have not, in the same way, discovered that they transmit information. We have simply postulated this conclusion by falsely modeling neurons on persons.
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Daí a construir a hipótese neural de uma escolha, de um sentimento, ou da vaga sensação de ser, consciente mas intraduzível ou irreconhecível...
ResponderEliminarIdiotice por idiotice, eu prefiro os homúnculos cartesianos à falácia mereológica dos atributos psicológicos do cérebro, que pensa, percepciona e tem desejos.Ainda há muitos intelectuais bem pensantes que alinham neste disparate.
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