The paper is specifically about how space is represented in the human brain. Data representing space can be encoded in many different, but functionally equivalent, ways. Showing how it could be encoded by neurons in the hippocampus is valuable to understand our brain, but philosophically not significant.
ithkuil|1 year ago
How did we come to the point where we relegated philosophy to be the study of only the things not connected with reality?
I'm fine with thinking about philosophy as a field that also explores ideas that are not connected with reality, but it's not only about those things.
mbivert|1 year ago
If it deals with reality, then it's in the realm of science; science being the superior form to tackle such things, there's simply no reasons to involve "philosophy". The only room left for philosophy is thus wherever science doesn't operate.
Not that I think it's a good thing: the dogmatic, rigid, mindset advocated by contemporary institutionalized science feels detrimental to a "lighter" approach to life: it's as if people don't have the right to ponder about existence on their own anymore; it's child's play if it's not done in such and such a way.
meroes|1 year ago