I am now reading the “Mind Illuminated” where the author states:
>Over and over again, we find there are neural correlates for mental activities. Although some will resist this statement, I believe we will eventually find that all mental phenomena, without exception, have their neural correlates.
A quick search on wikipedia gave me the following definition for a neural correlate:
> the minimal set of neuronal events and mechanisms sufficient for a specific conscious percept.
But how to connect what the authors says and the definition? Is it that when you activate certain neurons in the brain, then you can access a concrete mental state?
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What the author says is that every mental activity has a neural activation pattern. There is no mind that is independant of your brain. (This doesn’t mean you can reconstruct the mental state from the neural activity, just that there always IS neural activity when a mental phenomenon occurs)
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