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Brains, Neuroscience, and Animalism: On the Implications of Thinking Brains
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AbstractThe neuroscience revolution has led many scientists to posit “expansive” or “thinking” brains that instantiate rich psychological properties. As a result, some scientists now even claim you are identical to such a brain. However, Eric Olson has offered new arguments that thinking brains cannot exist due to their intuitively “abominable” implications. After situating the commitment to thinking brains in the wider scientific discussions in which they are posited, I then critically assess Olson's arguments against such entities. Although highlighting an important insight, I show that Olson's objections to the existence of thinking brains fail and that a wider discussion engaging our new empirical findings is actually required in order to resolve the deeper issues.
Title: Brains, Neuroscience, and Animalism: On the Implications of Thinking Brains
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AbstractThe neuroscience revolution has led many scientists to posit “expansive” or “thinking” brains that instantiate rich psychological properties.
As a result, some scientists now even claim you are identical to such a brain.
However, Eric Olson has offered new arguments that thinking brains cannot exist due to their intuitively “abominable” implications.
After situating the commitment to thinking brains in the wider scientific discussions in which they are posited, I then critically assess Olson's arguments against such entities.
Although highlighting an important insight, I show that Olson's objections to the existence of thinking brains fail and that a wider discussion engaging our new empirical findings is actually required in order to resolve the deeper issues.
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