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A major philosophic issue in the field of psychobiology is the question of the relationship of the brain to the mind. Some neurobiologists such as Eccles (1963) lean toward the view that the world of the mind and that of the physical are separate and distinct and relate only through a so-called psychophysical parallelism. In this theory, events in the two worlds are parallel but not equivalent. Other neurobiologists such as Kornhuber (1978) believe, with Spinoza, that “the mental and the physical are different aspects of the same thing” (p. 323). For myself, only the latter position makes philosophic sense and it is that position which rules this volume.
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Kissin, B. (1986). Anatomical and Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System. In: Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain. Psychobiology of Human Behavior, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2187-3_1
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