Brain, Symbol & Experience: Towards a Neurophenomenology of Human…

All of science, anthropology included, is in a crisis of self-reflection. This disturbance is not merely superficial, narrowly affecting this or that discipline as it shops around for a new paradigm. Rather, it is a crisis of the depths, a movement within the very spirit of science that is in search of expression and meaning. The crisis is thus a hermeneutical process that began long before the advent of science, and that will not end with the emergence of a few new theories, another Nobel Prize winner or two, or some popularly applauded magical formula. It will begin to subside only when science begins to recognize its source within the unfolding tapestry of sentient awareness and consciousness in the universe. In other words, the crisis will become resolved only when science becomes phenomenologically mature (Husserl 1970).