TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1957
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1957/
A1  - Krellenstein, Marc
Y1  - 1995///
N2  - It has been suggested that certain problems may be unsolvable because of the mind's cognitive structure, but we may wonder what problems, and exactly why. The ultimate origin of the universe and the mind-body problem seem to be two such problems. As to why, Colin McGinn has argued that the mind-body problem is unsolvable because any theoretical concepts about the brain will be observation-based and unable to connect to unobservable subjective experience. McGinn's argument suggests a requirement of imagability -- an observation basis -- for physical causal explanation that cannot be met for either of these problems. Acausal descriptions may be possible but not the causal analyses 
that provide the greatest explanatory satisfaction, a 
psychological phenomenon that seems tied to the strength of the underlying observation basis but is affected by other factors as well. 

PB  - The Institute of Mind and Behavior
KW  - unsolvable problems
KW  -  mind-body problem
KW  -  origin of the universe
KW  -  causal descriptions
KW  -  imagability
TI  - Unsolvable Problems, Visual Imagery and Explanatory Satisfaction
SP  - 235
AV  - public
EP  - 254
ER  -

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