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I think that depth has been more widely recognized in neuro-biology before, but has fallen from grace in favor of a naive mechanistic enthusiasm at the beginning of that early neuroimagining euphoria.

You may look into constructivism, especially the biological foundation (e.g. the work of Maturana and Valera). It offers the (somewhat forgotten) hard science link to modern philosophy and psychology, like post-structualism/-modernism and systems theory.

As far as I know, it's not very popular, because it presents a little crisis and is "not very fun"... or at least that's what the criticism comes down to IMO. (I suspect, it's kinda similar to Gödel's assault, but much easier to dismiss.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_constructivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis