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Do we need to revise how we think of "causation" in biological systems such as the brain? If so, how to do that if experimental neuroscientists are very averse to "vague" philosophical/ notions of "emergence"/etc. Note that current tools from math and physics potentially dispel any mystery from these concepts. |
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Hello @pessoabrain! Thank you for starting this discussion :D The idea would be to create a list of resources for neuroscientists interested in philosophy. This is the ReadMe.md file at the root of this repository (here). The literature is sooo vast that it's hard to see how to get started; and once you are started, how to move forward. The concept of causation is definitely important, especially due to the popularity of methods for estimating causality (SEM, DCM, J. Pearl's work, Mendelian randomisation, Granger causality...). I went ahead and added a "Causality" section to the ReadMe.md file. Please add there any resource you'd find useful. We could try to tag resources which are good for getting started, and then the more advanced stuff. A video lecture on the philosophy of causality would be nice to have (introducing Aristotle's 4 causes?), but something more directly related to neuroscience would be even better... I found this lecture on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eyFIi9g8N4. What do you think? |
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