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Chapter 10 of 10

Brain and mind

What neuroscience does not settle.

Levels of explanation

Knowing which regions activate does not explain experience, any more than knowing which transistors switch explains a program. Both descriptions can be true at once.

  • Neural correlates of consciousness are correlates, not an explanation.
  • Psychological explanations are not made obsolete by biological ones.

Caution with claims

Your brain on X headlines usually report small studies with weak designs. The brain changes with every experience, so finding a change is not itself a finding.