Why it matters
Defended the causal importance of mental experience within neuroscience.
Core term · Roger W. Sperry
Emergent Mind
The idea that mental properties emerge from organized brain processes and can influence behavior.
Areas of life
Consciousnessvaluesself-control
How to handle it
Take subjective experience seriously while grounding it in brain and behavior.
Who shaped this idea
The thinker behind it
From concept to practice
Turn Emergent Mind into a question you can answer.
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.