Quantifying what is efficacious yet not observable: Cognitive neuroscience’s measurement problem has a solution

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<p>Cognitive neuroscience faces a measurement problem: core features of the human mind cannot be directly observed in the brain. For example, intentions are efficacious in behavior generation yet cannot be reduced to the sub-personal quantities of neural activity without losing their purpose-driven, normative character. This instrumental limitation is fundamental yet remains insufficiently recognized. To bring thi...

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• Mutation
• Cerebral Cortex
• Neurons
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Transcription, Genetic

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5c3a21eb-20dc-5250-a044-00b830501b50

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10.31234/osf.io/4nbh5_v1