On the Relation between the Mind and the Brain: A Neuroscience Perspective
Philosophia Scientiæ January 19, 2026 Edmund T. Rolls 3 citations
Computational neuroscience offers a new approach to classic philosophical problems—the mind-body problem, determinism and free will, and phenomenal consciousness. The mind and brain are different levels of explanation for information processing, and their correspondence can be understood through neural computation. However, a gap remains in understanding how brain events produce subjective experience. The proposed explanation is that 'feeling like something' arises from a computational process involving higher-order thoughts grounded in the world.