caa a22 4500 463177347 CHVBK 20180406164829.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10339-007-0161-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10339-007-0161-3 A critical review of the physicalistic approaches of the mind and consciousness [Elektronische Daten] [Miltos Livaditis, Evgenia Tsatalmpasidou] The aim of this paper is to construct a critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the physicalistic theory concerning mental phenomena and consciousness. Physicalism can, better than other theories, explain mental phenomena, such as intentionality and reasonability of human beings and other biological organisms. Modern neuroscience corroborates the conviction that the brain is a physical mind capable of giving meaning to, evaluating and further cognitively and behaviorally transforming complex aspects of the world. On the other hand, the emergence of consciousness from brain states seems to be a paradoxical, intransparent, physical coincidence hardly explained by the mental function of the brain at the physical level. Moreover, the intentionality and reasonability of psychic phenomena per se cannot be explained as a repercussion of the same attributes characterizing the brain function. In conclusion, the old debate between physicalism and other philosophical theories remains open. It can be expected that the progress of sciences will inspire novel approaches to the problem of the relations between matter, mind and consciousness. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli and Springer-Verlag, 2007 Physicalism nationallicence Mind nationallicence Consciousness nationallicence Intentionality nationallicence Reasonability nationallicence Livaditis Miltos Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, Dragana, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece aut Tsatalmpasidou Evgenia Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, Dragana, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece aut Cognitive Processing Springer-Verlag 8/1(2007-03-01), 1-9 1612-4782 8:1<1 2007 8 10339 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-007-0161-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-007-0161-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Livaditis Miltos Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, Dragana, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tsatalmpasidou Evgenia Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, Dragana, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cognitive Processing Springer-Verlag 8/1(2007-03-01), 1-9 1612-4782 8:1<1 2007 8 10339 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer