Brain, Consciousness, and Soul.
With increasing effort neuroscientists try to investigate our brain to describe physiological states in form of measurable data. From the point of view of neuroscience the consciousness as negotiated by philosophy since centuries is explainable by these measures. On the other hand, it is tried by modern philosophy of mind to explain the existence of the soul as an entity by the fact of undeceiveable subjective experience, the so-called qualia. In the paper I will show that this argumentation is evident on account of an invincible ontological difference of phenomena that are empirically detectable and those that avoid scientific research. This methodological “explanation gap” is held as the important point concerning the undeceiveability of the phenomenal states of human consciousness.