?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Theory+of+Brain-Sign%3A+A+Physical+Alternative+to+Consciousness&rft.creator=Clapson%2C+Philip&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=Consciousness+and+the+mind+are+prescientific+concepts+that+begin+with+Greek+theorizing.+They+suppose+human+rationality+and+reasoning+placed+in+the+human+head+by+God%2C+who+structured+the+universe+he+created+with+the+same+kind+of+underlying+characteristics.+Descartes%E2%80%99+development+of+the+model+included+scientific+objectivity+by+placing+the+mind+outside+the+physical+universe.+In+its+failure+under+evidential+scrutiny+and+without+physical+explanation%2C+this+model+is+destined+for+terminal+decline.+Instead%2C+a+genuine+biological+and+physical+function+for+the+brain+phenomenon+can+be+developed.+This+is+the+theory+of+brain-sign.+It+accepts+the+causality+of+the+brain+as+its+physical+characteristics%2C+already+under+scientific+scrutiny.+What+is+needed+is+a+new+neurophysiological+language+that+specifies+the+relation+of+the+structure+and+operation+of+the+brain+to+organismic+action+in+the+world.+Still+what+is+lacking+is+an+account+of+how+neurophysiologies+in+different+organisms+communicate+on+unpredictable+dynamic+tasks.+It+is+this+evolved+capacity+that+has+emerged+as+brain-sign.+Thus+rather+than+mentality+being+an+inner+epistemological+parallel+world+suddenly+appearing+in+the+head%2C+brain-sign%2C+as+the+neural+sign+of+the+causal+status+of+the+brain+capable+of+being+held+adequately+in+common%2C+facilitates+the+communicative+medium+of+otherwise+isolated+organisms.+The+biogenesis+of+the+phenomenon+thus+emerges+directly+from+the+account+of+the+physical+brain%2C+and+functions+as+a+monistic+feature+of+organisms+in+the+physical+world.+This+new+paradigm+offers+disciplinary+compatibility%2C+and+genuine+development+in+behavioral+and+brain+sciences.%09+&rft.date=2006-06&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5884%2F1%2FBBS_paper.htm&rft.identifier=++Clapson%2C+Philip++(2006)+The+Theory+of+Brain-Sign%3A+A+Physical+Alternative+to+Consciousness.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5884%2F