Question

There is new information being discovered each day in the field of biopsychology. What do you believe may be the next big discovery? Describe several examples. (e.g. discovery of more types of neurotransmitters)

Answer 1

I propose that the next major scientific breakthrough will be the identification and explication of the fundamental physical foundations for the link or bridge between what we call consciousness and physical matter.

We know experientially that consciousness exists — in this sense, empirically, because we can clearly identify various phases of consciousness with our cognitive faculties, thus it is an identifiable reality.

At the same time, it it generally regarded as highly doubtful that any machines we design by assembling material components will ever, even theoretically, possess the uniquely organic faculty which we know as consciousness — although they might well pass various forms of the Turing test.

The mechanism by which consciousness as a kind of field (albeit even an acknowledged “metaphysical” or “spiritual” field) interacts with the physical, organic brain will also be clarified and studied.