<b>An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the <i>world-brain problem</i> supersedes the <i>mind-body problem</i>.</b><p>Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the <i>world-brain problem </i>rather than the <i>mind-body problem</i>. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage
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