Theoretical Neuroscience Part 1: The Scientific Approach to Brain Research and Brain Theory

Ryan Scott Los Angeles, California, USA December 2013

Abstract Biology and neuroscience, as the sciences of human systemic function, have developed alongside the pseudoscientific human th research paradigm of the mind sciences, psychology and cognitive science, during the 20 century. This is because the method and theory principles of legitimate science were not coherently formulated and established as a regulatory research mechanism, due to the temporary immaturity of physics and neuroscience, in parallel with the liberal social current of pseudoscientific activity, set in the broader context of the social disorder of the Judeo-Christian liberal social-institutional paradigm. For those reasons, the pseudoscientific nature of the mind theories and mind sciences, which explicitly contravene the clear boundaries of scien ce and the scientific methodological process, has not initially been completely evident and rectifiable. Now in the 21 century, with the advancement of the legitimate sciences of mathematical physics, chemistry, and neurobiology, in combination with the development of information technologies and the emergence of a new social and political generation and paradigm, the method and theory principles of human biology and neuroscience, are clearly identifiable and applicable, and the mind pseudosciences, psychology and cognitive science, are manifestly requiring replacement. And so, the first scientific step of theoretical neuroscience, is the coherent identification and application of the scientific method approach to human study and theory. As an epistemic and technological guide to researching and developing theories of human biosystem and nervous system function, the scientific method sets out a coherent theoretical research process, shows the methodological precedence of the brain as the system of study and theoryespecially in relation to the functionalist theory of mindand establishes neuroscience as the legitimate scientific human research program.
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1. Introduction: How to approach human study and theory 1.1 No coherent 20 century science proposal a human pseudoscience paradigm 1.2 The 21 century scientific map of method and theory in human biological science 1.3 Human bioscience paradigm advancement 2. Outline of science 2.1 Epistemic and technological differences between scientific and pseudoscientific methodology 2.2 Scientific method as the technical guide to human study and theory 3. The scientific approach to theoretical brain research
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3.1 Selection of the physical system(s) of human theory and study 3.2 Brain as the system of theory and study 3.3 Neuroscience: the scientific human research program