Dasein's brain
phenomenology meets cognitive science
pp. 185-197
in: Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Ernest Mathijs (eds), Einstein meets Magritte: an interdisciplinary reflection, Berlin, Springer, 1999Abstract
A science of consciousness requires a significant re-framing of the way the question is usually posed within cognitive science and in the Anglo-American philosophy of mind. We need to turn to a systematic exploration of the only link between mind and consciousness that seems both obvious and natural: the structure of human experience itself [31, 32]1. Dasein is a code-word in phenomenology coined by Heidegger to refer precisely to the primacy of lived, immediate experience. Heidegger would certainly turn in his grave to hear that a Dasein is predicated next to "brain", but such is my project2.
