When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
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Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, has studied stem cells for years. He's co-founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. What the South Korean researchers have done is a real breakthrough, ... But there is a tremendous amount of work that needs to be done. This ... requires intense scientific scrutiny, evaluation and experimentation.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
I argue that neuroscience alone isn't enough to explain consciousness, but I think it will be a major part of an eventual theory.