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Book: The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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  1. Jeffrey M. Schwartz _ The Mind and the Brain:

    The explanatory gap has never been bridged. And the inescapable reason is this: a neural state is not a mental state. The mind is not the brain, though it depends on the material brain for its existence {as far as we know}. As the philosopher Colin McGinn says, "The problem with materialism is that it tries to construct the mind out of properties that refuse to add up to mentality.
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