TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gierer, Alfred
T1  - The physical foundations of biology and the problems of psychophysics
N2  - Full applicability of physics to human biology does not necessarily imply that one can uncover a comprehensive, algorithmic correlation between physical brain states and corresponding mental states. The argument takes into account that information processing is finite in principle in a finite world. Presumbly the brain-mind-relation cannot be resolved in all essential aspects, particularly when high degrees of abstraction or self-analytical processes are involved. Our conjecture plausibly unifies the universal validity of physics and a logical limitation of human thought, and it does not regard consciousness -the most basic human experience - as a marginal phenomenon. ++++ RATIO appeared up to 1987 in both a German and an English version. The German title of this article: Alfred Gierer, Der physikalische Grundlegungsversuch in der Biologie und das psychophysische Problem. RATIO XII, Heft 1, 1970, S. 40-54.
KW  - consciousness
KW  - brain
KW  - decodability
KW  - mind
KW  - undecidability
KW  - finitistic
KW  - cognition
KW  - Feigl
Y1  - 2008
UR  - https://edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/795
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4360-1007511
UR  - http://edoc.bbaw.de/oa/articles/reWz6M147oWSU/PDF/28LwqY36Qbdqw.pdf
ER  -