#brainandmind

🔛 Are there limits to our understanding of consciousness? 🧠 When discussing the so-called “hard problem of consciousness,” one thing becomes clear: no matter how much we measure, scan, and analyze the brain, we can only ever detect neural processes, never the mind itself. And when we turn inward, we experience consciousness directly, but without any trace of neurons. This insurmountable duality of mind and brain is reminiscent of a realization already formulated by Werner Heisenberg: there are limits that we cannot transcend with logic and imagination. Just as waves and particles are two incompatible but equally necessary descriptions, the relationship between brain and mind also seems to mark such an epistemological boundary. In our Zoomposium with Gerhard Roth, we discuss precisely this tension: Is there an “explanatory gap” between neural processes and subjective experience? Must we accept that consciousness can never be completely reduced to brain functions? And what does this mean for our view of humanity, for AI, and for the future of brain research? A conversation at the boundary of what we can know—and perhaps also need to know that we cannot know. 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/ 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik