Brain-Centric: How the Mental Space builds our Realities

by Ronald Cicurel

This book is about how we build “realities.” Brain-centrism asserts that our mental representations cannot be what is “out there.” What we perceive is our mental reactions to the external world. Because no one has ever observed “out there” with non-human eyes and a non-human brain, brain-centrism asserts that our scientific “third. party” descriptions are merely sophisticated “first party” descriptions with error corrections. The information we collect from “out there” is only data, the reality built on these data is a brain construct. This Kantian-like paradigm has numerous consequences in the interpretation of science, mathematics but also in day-to-day life.Brain-centric is divided into three first part is dedicated to an analysis of the mental space, perception mechanism, mental representations, and emotions. It also analyzes the role of language and information in the operations of our mental space and introduces the notion of Gödelian information, previously presented in our monograph The Relativistic Brain with Miguel Nicolelis.In part two, we will consider human knowledge, how the mental space acquires it in its historic quest for truth.The third part of this essay will examine the limitations imposed on knowledge by the very nature of the mental space. We will also discuss creativity and intuition.

342 pages, Hardcover

Published May 23, 2021