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How is one to approach the problem of consciousness in relation to the brain? “Had it not been for the anatomists”, wrote G. F. Stout, “conscious individuals might have thought, felt, willed and known about themselves and each other, without ever suspecting that they had brains at all.” (Stout, 1924, p. 17.) In this, if only in this, Freud might well have agreed with him. Although everyone today knows that he has a brain and few would deny that it has something to do with how he thinks, feels, wills and knows about himself, psychologists still disagree as to whether attempts to understand the workings of the brain have relevance to psychology.1 In consequence, it is perhaps worth while having a look at the contemporary psychological scene to determine whether, and if so to what extent, advances in brain research are shedding light on psychological issues.
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Zangwill, O.L. (1977). Consciousness and the Brain. In: Butts, R.E., Hintikka, J. (eds) Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1141-9_10
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