Leonardo Polo's Integrative Dynamic as a Philosophical Framework for Understanding Neuroscience

Abstract

Neuroscience requires theoretical frameworks to conceptualize and interpret the results of research, especially given the current trend that calls for functional integration in order to understand the brain. Leonardo Polo's philosophy may be an appropriate interpretive framework in this regard, since both the dynamics of his thought about human beings and current advances in neuroscience work in terms of integration. I thus trace Polo's understanding of human life and the anthropological scheme of his philosophy, in order to verify that it unfolds within the paradigm of integration. To ensure this, I will first discuss the way the term integration will be understood in this paper.