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Where is our inner self localized? Can the complexity of the human being be reduced to a pattern of neurons? Why nobody have found solutions to the main problems (localization, the binding problem, multisensory integration, etc.) of cognitive neuroscience? Here are just a few of the questions that have been puzzling cognitive neuroscience researchers for decades. These questions, along with many others, will find no answer in this book. Why? Because the wrong questions will never yield the right answers. What Gabriel and Mihai Vacariu's book offers is not just a way of avoiding the traps of cognitive neuroscience, but a new framework, a way for researchers and amateurs alike to finally search for the truth. This book is a synthesis of all our works on cognitive neuroscience since 2008 to 2015. Within the epistemologically different worlds perspective, we investigate the main topics of cognitive neuroscience: fMRI and EEG, localization, the binding problem, perception, multisensory integration, holism and default mode network. Our main question is Why none of these problems has been solved after many years of research?. Our answer is that these problems are in fact pseudo-problems. We present the optimism research (Gallants laboratory works, for instance) versus the skepticism framework (Uttal, for instance). Correlation the main notion in cognitive neuroscience, has no ontology background and there are no laws in this area. In this context, we conclude that, without an ontological background, cognitive neuroscience is a pseudoscience. Gabriel Vacariu Read more