Mind-Body Parallelism Revisited

Mind-Body Parallelism Revisited

This article addresses the links and interactions between the neuroscience parallel line of theories and the parallel line of mental activity and thinking. An argument is made that the most fundamental biological entity, the human genome, provides a pathway of mind-body functional coordination via a double helix metaphor. Brief selections of neuroscience and psychological theories associated wi...

The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism: Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism

Non-determinate Dependent And-Parallelism Revisited

We consider the problem of exploiting non-determin-istic dependent and-parallelism (DAP) from Prolog programs. The main issues that arise in designing a parallel Prolog system for exploiting DAP are discussed. Three criteria for eecient exploitation of DAP are also developed. These criteria are then used to evaluate and classify existing execution models proposed for exploiting DAP. These crite...

Neuropsychiatry: grasping the body-mind and mind-body problems.

I f the brain is the most complicated material object in the known universe, the mind is its most wondrous product (1). Precisely how the brain generates mental events is an unsolved mystery. The field of neuropsychiatry concerns itself with psychopathology caused by structural brain disease, brain electrical malfunction, and extrinsic toxic metabolic disturbances. As such, neuropsychiatry is i...

Mind – Body – Spirituality

The argument of this paper is that the modern brain-consciousness debate has left out one important element: the question of a transpersonal or spirit-like element of consciousness. Thus the problem really is not a mind-body-problem or brain-consciousness problem, but a mind-body-spirit or brain-consciousness-soul problem. Looking at the history of the debate it can be seen that, explicitly or ...