Consciousness – the ‘chimera’ of psychology?
The term ‘chimera’, according to Wikipedia, describes any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, or anything composed of disparate parts or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling. Is that the status of consciousness in Psychology? Following the birth of cognitive psychology in the early 1960s and the consequent development of cognitive neuropsychology, studies of how the detailed functioning of mental processes might be embodied in brain processes have become the dominant form of psychological science. Like materialist science in general, this adopts the assumptions that the phenomena it studies are mental functions and/or embodying structures that are third-person observable and physical, and ‘mind’ is thought of as a form of human information processing. ….[READ]
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