I assume that neurology and psychology will converge or one of them will be forgotten by the way side.
I don’t see how bodies and brains can be temporary vehicles for consciousness. If you mean that the state of our brains can be transferred to a machine in some sort of readout and that machine is capable of consciousness—then that machine becomes our brain/body replacement. A disembodied consciousness is something I cannot imagine.
I assume that neurology and psychology will converge or one of them will be forgotten by the way side.
Could psychology not be found to be still useful when considering human behaviors at a different level of abstraction (or, indeed, with different forms of experimentation)?
Yes, of course, psychology and neurology could exist together using different levels of abstraction and different methods—like physics and chemistry. But if they disagree on fundamentals and cannot converge then I don’t think they can stay that way for long.
Agreed concerning the need for a processing platform. Not so sure about the convergence of psych and neuro for same reason. If the same psych rules can apply to a consciousness regardless of platform, then neurology not applicable in that case.
I assume that neurology and psychology will converge or one of them will be forgotten by the way side. I don’t see how bodies and brains can be temporary vehicles for consciousness. If you mean that the state of our brains can be transferred to a machine in some sort of readout and that machine is capable of consciousness—then that machine becomes our brain/body replacement. A disembodied consciousness is something I cannot imagine.
Could psychology not be found to be still useful when considering human behaviors at a different level of abstraction (or, indeed, with different forms of experimentation)?
Yes, of course, psychology and neurology could exist together using different levels of abstraction and different methods—like physics and chemistry. But if they disagree on fundamentals and cannot converge then I don’t think they can stay that way for long.
Agreed concerning the need for a processing platform. Not so sure about the convergence of psych and neuro for same reason. If the same psych rules can apply to a consciousness regardless of platform, then neurology not applicable in that case.