category errors

There may be only one way out of this dilemma: To disarm mentalism and turn the study of (human) nature into a science. We thus first have to effectively dissolve the ancient body-mind hierarchy problem and thus avoid continued commission to catastrophic Rylean category errors by neglectfully mixing mental and material phenomena as if they were equals in the description or explanation.

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Despite its enormous subjective appeal and an almost desperate search for it, neither have philosophy nor modern (brain) sciences ever evidenced the slightest trace of consciousness in the human brain or, for that sake, anywhere else in the world.

-- Helmut Nyborg, Molecular Man in a Molecular World, pg. 461

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