Znaczenie naturalizmu biologicznego Johna Searle'a
The significance of John Searle's biological naturalism

Summary/Abstract: This article presents John Searle's concept of the mind–body relation, which he calls biological naturalism, aiming to explain how the brain generates the mind. The author argues that the main obstacle is the dualistic language we use, along with its built-in cognitive errors. Abandoning this vocabulary leads to four core conclusions: (1) The mind has an irreducible first-person ontology and exists as a real feature of the physical world-reducing consciousness to brain processes would eliminate subjective perspective and treat it as an illusion. (2) Conscious states are nothing more than effects of lower-level neurobiological processes; the mind is not a separate substance with an independent existence. (3) Their origin is strictly correlated with the brain as a medium, and conscious states are properties of the central nervous system. (4) Conscious states, in all their richness, enter causal relations with the physical world. Biological naturalism does not choose between monism and dualism, but seeks to move beyond this opposition, offering a perspective consistent with contemporary neuroscience.

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