埃德爾曼的神經元達爾文主義

1、華中科技大學碩士學位論文埃德爾曼的神經元達爾文主義姓名：李娜申請學位級別：碩士專業(yè)：科學技術哲學指導教師：陳剛20090519華 中 科 技 大 學 碩 士 學 位 論 文 華 中 科 技 大 學 碩 士 學 位 論 文 IIAbstract From Ancient Greece to modern times, the “mind-body problem” has always been the focus of attenti

2、on of philosophers. Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Smart, Kim, Putnam, Davidson and other philosophers had raised their own opinions on this issue, but they all had failed to clarify the mystery. Research on this issue had

3、 been in the difficult position at one time.. As the result of the transformation of Philosophy of Mind to Naturalism, the problems of consciousness are the most cores of the issues in Philosophy of Mind. And the develop

4、ment in neuroscience promotes the further research on consciousness, which brings a favorable turn to the settlement of the “mind-body problem”. In this regard, Edelman who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medi

5、cine made the most substantive work. Under the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution, he believed that the formation of the brain follows the same principle. Consciousness is a process rather than a thing, and the p

6、rocess of consciousness is the outcome of distributed activities of numerous neurons in diverse regions of the brain. From the perspective of fundamental properties of consciousness, Edelman proposed a global theory in w

7、hich neuron groups’ activities are utilized to explain the operation of brain ---- Neural Darwinism or the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection(TNGS). Neural Darwinism explained how the consciousness arised from the neuron

8、al activities of the brain from the perspective of evolution and selection, qualia, and the causation between the generation of consciousness and the neuronal groups activities of brain, etc. This paper will analyze and

9、evaluate Neural Darwinism based upon the illumination of Edelman’s theory. Edelman's theory explained the physical processes of the formation of consciousness inspired by neuroscience, but finally led him to Monism’s

10、 Reductive Materialism. Mental events differ from physical events as existence, and mental events can not be reduced by physical events. Therefore, the solution of the “mind-body problem” depends on the non-reductive the