Process Psychology, Neurology, and the Science and Philosophy of Mind

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  • Jason Brown
  • Mark Germine
چکیده

This paper begins with a brief survey of the microgenetic process thought of Jason Brown as it has developed from its neuropsychological inception to his more recent neurophilosophy. We then survey some of the arguments and systems of thought that have been put forth since the time of Plato, as they come to bear on the theory of microgenesis and the microgeny of values. Idealism comports surprisingly well with the inward to outward movement from subject to object in the process of microgenesis. Jason Brown (2005), in his most recent work, reveals idealist influences, but steers a middle course that may be regarded as subjective monism. Values are briefly discussed from a perspective that is informed by Jason Brown's work, but which takes more of an idealistic and teleological turn. Possible quantum physical theories of microgenesis are described, in particular as they bear on the problem of the irreducible duration of microgenesis. A quantum model of microgenetic process is necessary for a theory of values, as classical science is mechanistic and does not allow for free will or agency. The problem of recapitulation of the phenomenal now is discussed in view of the now-widely-accepted Holographic Principle.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007