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Philosophical aspects of neurophysiology

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The currently available possibility to observe directly and noninvasively and to model the functioning of the living brain virtually marks a fundamentally new level of neurosciences; this is a new methodological paradigm of understanding, studying, forming, and correcting the state of human consciousness and behavior. In the opinion of the author, understanding the revolution in neurophysiology, which is associated with a computer-information breakthrough in cognition tools, may be the most productive factor within a philosophical approach.

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    Igor’ Leonidovich Andreev

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Original Russian Text © I.L. Andreev, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 250–256.

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Andreev, I.L. Philosophical aspects of neurophysiology. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 173–179 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615020021

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