Conscious experience in humans depends on brain activity, so neuroscience will contribute to explaining consciousness.
Evidence
The Neuroscience of Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Human knowledge fails to answer life’s fundamental questions. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 64; Science is done by brains and people, so claiming science can’t explain consciousness is nonsensical. — Science can’t explain consciousness because …; Understanding consciousness requires not treating organisms like machines and minds like code. — Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) (+7 more)
Related
- Understanding consciousness requires not treating organisms like machines and minds like code. (similarity 0.85)
- Consciousness is a phenomenon that is widely considered amenable to scientific investigation. (similarity 0.84)
- The majority of neuroscientists ignore the question of how consciousness is generated. (similarity 0.83)
- Consciousness presents a ‘hard problem’ to scholars — how the physical body gives rise to subjective experience. (similarity 0.83)
- Science is done by brains and people, so claiming science can’t explain consciousness is nonsensical. (similarity 0.82)
- We know that our human consciousness has evolved naturally. (similarity 0.81)
- Neuroscience progress has spread knowledge without producing self-consciousness (similarity 0.79)