Open Peer Commentary Gold & Stoljar: A neuron doctrine
Biological neuroscience is only as radical as the evolution of mind
Terry Blumenthal a1andJames Schirillo a1 a1 Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
{blumen;shirija}@wfu.edu
Abstract
A biological neuroscientific theory must acknowledge that the
function of a neurological system is to produce behaviors that promote
survival. Thus, unlike what Gold & Stoljar claim, function and
behavior are the province of neurobiology and cannot be relegated to
the field of psychological phenomena, which would then trivialize the
radical doctrine if accepted. One possible advantage of adopting such
a (correctly revised) radical doctrine is that it might ultimately
produce a successful, evolutionarily based, theory of mind.
