The majority of neuroscientists ignore the question of how consciousness is generated.
Evidence
What Neuroscientists Think, and Don’t Think, About … (PMC / NIH)
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 has failed to adequately answer how human consciousness developed or what it actually is. — No, Science Can’t Answer the Biggest Questions of Life and Existence
Related
- Science has failed to adequately answer how human consciousness developed or what it actually is. (similarity 0.84)
- Science is done by brains and people, so claiming science can’t explain consciousness is nonsensical. (similarity 0.84)
- Conscious experience in humans depends on brain activity, so neuroscience will contribute to explaining consciousness. (similarity 0.83)
- Consciousness is a phenomenon that is widely considered amenable to scientific investigation. (similarity 0.83)
- Understanding consciousness requires not treating organisms like machines and minds like code. (similarity 0.82)
- Consciousness presents a ‘hard problem’ to scholars — how the physical body gives rise to subjective experience. (similarity 0.82)
- Neuroscience progress has spread knowledge without producing self-consciousness (similarity 0.80)
- As McGinn argued, introspection cannot tell us how physical processes give rise to consciousness. (similarity 0.79)