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The chasm in current knowledge between phenomena that emerge from the human brain in action for which the languages of psychology and psychopathology are required, and events at the level of brain molecules and electrolytes that are correlates in the physical domain, is vast both in conceptual and practical terms. In the biological sphere alone, the interactive hypercomplexities of anatomical substructure and biophysical function virtually defy definitive analysis, although seemingly providing commensurate degrees of freedom for the manifestations called “mind”. Given the still rudimentary state of knowledge in human neurosciences, it is clear that understanding of the exact nature of cerebral events that translate into cognition, affect and behavior (rational or otherwise) remains a distant goal, even without invocation of more recondite issues in logic and epistemology that, in the author’s view, are inescapable for any comprehensive consideration of these perplexing but transcendingly challenging matters.1
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Pope, A. (1987). From Intelligence to the Microchemistry of the Human Cerebral Cortex. In: Vaina, L.M. (eds) Matters of Intelligence. Synthese Library, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3833-5_16
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