The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
When the philosophers are writing that it will take at least a hundred years of discovery to find a unified theory that unifies the various sciences of the mind and brain, they are also writing that there is a need for a great amount of change in the current knowledge in order to answer many of our most pressing medical questions.
Often, when a great amount of change is necessary in a field of science, it is a sign that something is wrong with the basic techniques or language of that science.
Most doctors believe it is no longer possible for anyone outside of their profession to be able to contribute to the field. They rationalize that no outsider could be helpful without access to the vast array of expensive technology at their disposal. They also can’t see how anything of significance can be contributed by anyone who has not gone through their extensive training of eight or so years in school and internships. They are intelligent people and this training was difficult for them.
But eight years of training from one point of view can also be eight years of indoctrination from another point of view.
Any serious basic mistakes in their approach are difficult to dispel with such a long period of boot camp. During the time they are learning the profession they are expected to be obedient. They need to please their professors and doctor-teachers. The system is extremely hierarchical and their careers depend on the ability to please those with more status.
By the time they are allowed to have enough status to speak their own minds (by becoming doctors), they have the same minds.
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Many of the problems of medicine, biology, psychology and philosophy require an understanding of the basic mathematical principles behind how the nervous system does what it does to achieve function and experience, and that mathematics is not explained using narrowly-focused statistics. Understanding how this math works will be the tool for the discovery of many answers of great importance to humanity. The case for this concept and the offering of an explanation of this kind of math is made in the many essays of this website.
On these pages you will find ideas that should haunt you. Included are new concepts in science, medicine, sociology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy and more...
This website and the podcasts of Everyone's Revolution explain how the brain creates the mind, but many side issues must be resolved in order to teach this material. Once you realize that the "hard problems" are really the first problems to be answered, you then have a tool for changing all of science and medicine by explaining a massive number of discoveries that will fall into line in order to unify the evidence. All of the evidence is good. The interpretations of the evidence are mistaken in many cases. For ten years now there have been new discoveries of evidence that all move in the direction of supporting this theory (or this school of many theories) and its predictions. Quite a few people have started to pay attention to this theory as well.
