The ontological reversal of computation and the brain
Ida Momennejad
The Brain Abstracted (2024) critiques treating abstractions in neuroscience as complete explanations of the brain, for their oversimplification and control-orientation. Chirimuuta argues that neuroscience operates on haptic realism, where scientific knowledge arises through control-oriented experimental interaction rather than contemplative understanding of reality. She proposes distinct epistemic aims for philosophy (understanding) and science (control of nature) and suggests a disciplinary sep