The essence of a mind symbolizes a subjective, that is non-objective, experience and this is directly opposite to the focus of investigations in natural history. Certainly, mind is, in a common sense, a non-physical phenomenon, but the primary mission of neurobiology is discovery of brain-psyche relations. Our reasoning proceeds from the fact that till now all known phenomena in the world have received natural explanations or they are on route to elucidation. Therefore, it is logical to try to find the material roots of psyche. Any study that has been undertaken in the field is dedicated to elucidation brain’s capability to perceive the present, to recall relevant features of the past and to produce an agency in order to impinge on the proposed future, even if authors do not declare these tasks directly. For a long time it was unclear whether this task is within reach of analysis by objective experiment. Thanks to the authority of Sir Francis Crick [276], the problem of brain-psyche relations has been enjoying full rights in the scientific literature of the last years. In passing, it was revealed that the consciousness problem is knotted much more firmly, than the double helix of DNA.
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(2008). Death as an awareness-rising factor (a single neuron can suffer and delight). In: Sandler, U., Tsitolovsky, L. (eds) Neural Cell Behavior and Fuzzy Logic. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09543-1_5
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