科学的な生命論の限界

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To begin with, I must make sure that the word 'Limitations' in the title does not mean at all the total denial of 'the Scientific Study of Life'. It has the implications akin to the Kantian of the word 'Kritik', whose task is, in a sense, to confirm what the human reason can do and what it cannot. There are two main arguments in my article. (1) It is impossible to confirm or verify definitely or once for all the irreversibility of the process of life, as that of the human brain, within the framework of any certain scientific theory. Because the possibility of the 'emergence' of any other new scientific theory that can explain the reversibility, cannot be denied by the present scientific theory itself. (2) The so-called causal theory of perception, which would claim that the cause of perception is the physical object, is in the wrong. Because the causal relation between the physical objects is essentially different from that between perceptional phenomena and their causes if those latter were to exist. At least it is quite clear that no physical theory can explain the causal relation between the physical objects and the perceptional phenomena non- or extra-physical for that matter.
東海学園大学の論文
1998-03-31