Philosophy of Mind?

[sajeev86]

‘A neuroscientific account of our lives will not provide theoretical categories that match up nicely with the categories of our common sense framework. Accordingly, we must expect that the older framework will simply be eliminated by a mature neuroscience.’ Discuss.

Just found this off a UCL (University College London) Philosophy M.A. Examination Paper.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Charles C]

Have you looked real close at these words you typed?
I am not trying to be a smart ass.
Believe me these words are empty.

[Darknei]

I think he means that as neuroscience evolves, and attempts to describe human activities through the activities of the physical and chemical structure of the brain, what it does find will invalidate many philosophical or social schools of explaining human actions.

A good example I think is how Lithium destroyed psychoanalysis as a serious science of mind. The discovery that mental imbalance could be a physical cause addressed by drugs and not something that could be talked out of or addressed by Freudian techniques. i mean.

This may or may not be true, as it is a toss up at how soon neuroscience will mature, or if even it can. Not all fields of study are guaranteed answers, and even if neuroscience does manage to provide working models of some aspects of human behaviors, we may still find others to be inexplicable.