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From a former neuro person: The physical world is not an abstraction- it's material. If you talk to anyone with any reasonable level of knowledge about neurosc
by neuromantik8086 8y ago
From a former neuro person: The physical world is not an abstraction- it's material. If you talk to anyone with any reasonable level of knowledge about neuroscience, you aren't going to find anyone who finds the Cartesian dualism you're effectively proposing credible anymore. The only real philosophies that hold their own in the psych/neuro world are reductionism/materialism and biological naturalism.
That and lesion studies / patients like H.M. have pretty effectively demonstrated that neurons have both processing and storage functions that aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
- neuromantik8086 8y agoIt's also worth pointing out that there are multiple types of neurons, so I suppose that you could argue that some of them are more "software-like" while others are more "hardware-like", as well as glial cells that essentially serve as dumb cabling (huge oversimplification). Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, for instance, are known to be more involved in muscle memory, although they still exhibit properties that are both hardware/software-like.