Concluding Remarks

Abstract

The reader who has survived this far may feel somewhat puzzled. For instance, he or she may wonder how to reconcile reduction (of the mental to the neural) with emergence (of mental functions out of nonmental ones); or how reductionism could possibly promote the integration of the various branches of psychology, which are so far largely dismembered; or why there is the insistence that current psychology is poor in theories, hence also in explanations, and that mature science does not include metaphors except as heuristic props.