Unsolved problems in cognitive science

Unsolved problems in cognitive science

There are fewer celebrated "findings" than "unsolved problems in cognitive science"; however one can list:

* How much human intervention is needed to produce a cognition?
* What is the relationship of personhood to cognition?
* Why is the conceptual horizon wider for some than for others?
* What is consciousness?
* What is the relationship between cognition and consciousness?
* Why is the 'hard problem' of explaining subjective experience so hard?
* Why is telepathy not in the realm of study of cognitive science?
* How much time is needed by the brain to comprehend its insufficiency?
* What is death?

Many of these questions are attempts at a scientific approach to problems in Philosophy, such as the Mind-Body Problem.

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