Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary branch of biology that focuses on the structure, functions, and development of the nervous system. With a scope that spans the thousands of distinguishable substructures between the molecular to the cognitive, Neuroscience combines domains as varied as molecular biology, physiology, and psychology (among many others) while it has given rise to many other disciplines.
Learn More...Materialisms assert that everything in the universe is matter-based. Even ideas and consciousness are seen as the result of material interactions. Most materialisms accept evolutionary theory. Correspondingly, all reject notions of spirits, spirituality, fates, and deities as useful or valid explanatory devices. There are many varieties at play in theories of learning.
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Neuroexistentialism (Owen Flanagan, Gregg Caruso, 2010s) – the existential anxiety arising from modern Neuroscience’s and Materialisms’ claim that humans are wholly natural, biological beings without nonphysical souls or cosmic purpose
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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2025). “Neuroexistentialism” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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