Büchner's materialistic interpretation of the universe in Kraft und Stoff created an uproar for its rejection of God, creation, religion, and free will and for its explanation of mind and consciousness as physical states of the brain produced by matter in motion.
The book is also surprisingly light on psychological evidence or references given the many empirical claims about human cognition (e.g., "lacking a good explanation, the mind defaults to whatever explanation is on the table…", p. 47), a gap in an otherwise well-researched and well-documented work.
With Dr. Neitz's explanation in mind, we started doing some in-office experiments.
We examined gene expression in the developing gonad of Maestro-deficient animals with this explanation in mind, but no significant differences between mutant and wild-type samples were observed.
It may help to keep an explanation in mind, in case you get caught off guard.
The pangeros, for their part, have seen enough remarkable whale behavior to know better than to prejudge any explanation, however mind-bending, for what is going on in the lagoons of Baja.
Nonetheless, one might rely on either explanation or mind-independence to mark an important contrast between various metaethical views.
Paying attention to the stand particular views take on explanation and mind-independence inevitably helps to keep them in focus and works to mark important questions.
To keep the players straight, we must note that Chomsky himself has had a very complicated relationship with evolutionary explanations of mind and cognition.[13] He is certainly not a friend of Evolutionary Psychology, and has joined with its critics in questioning its adaptationist perspective.[14] Cognitive Ethology.
The Passions of the Soul may not be a completely satisfactory explanation of mind-body union, but it does provide the definition Elisabeth asked for, an intricate taxonomy of the passions, a description of their bodily causes, effects and function, and an account of the "discipline of virtue" that addresses the means and extent to which we can regulate the passions.
With these explanations in mind, the most reasonable interpretation of the results presented in this report is that ZSCAN4 biologics directly correct karyotype abnormality, although other possibilities cannot be completely excluded at this point.
