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Question of the Month

How Are The Mind And Brain Related?

The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.

How are the mind and brain related? Several different but overlapping kinds of relationship obtaining between mind and brain are evident in recent literature:

1. Straightforward causality – Brains cause minds. This relationship is disconcertingly unproblematic. It is very clear, especially from neuroscience, that brains are entirely capable of causing minds, and do.

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