Brain, Mind And Consciousness in The History of Neuroscience

An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.

Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems.

Encephalitis lethargica (‘sleeping sickness’) was a mysterious disorder that swept the world in the decade following the First World War, before disappearing without its cause having been identified. Around 85% of its victims, predominantly children, adolescents and younger adults, survived the acute disorder, but most developed severe neurological syndromes, particularly severe post-encephalitic parkinsonism and other severe motor abnormalities, that incapacitated them for the remainder of their lives.

“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problem