On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:52:04 -0400, "Ray Scanlon" <rscanlon at wsg.net>
wrote:
>You are confused by the endless struggle to show that "mind" and "soul" are
>not synonymous. Once it is clear that they are synonyms, everything falls
>into place. Few neuroscientists (other than the seekers of the NCC) are
>interested in the soul (mind). This is one of the things that they agree to
>"put to one side" while they study the brain. On the other hand, the
>cognitive scientists are interested in little else.
Hardly! The cognitive scientists I know expand on the work of
neuroscientists but their subject is still the same: the brain. They
merely focus more on the emergent property of the brain as opposed to
the individual circuits. Perhaps, the cognitive scientists I know
aren't representative of the majority but I don't think so.
Check out Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Soul isn't even touched on in
most issues.
