<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Dear FISers,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">This text is brief is an effort to provide a viable solution for a double concern:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">a)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 1) </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">the proliferation of models, theories and
interpretations that suggest pseudoscientific explanations (e.g., lacking the
even theoretical possibility of empiric testability) for not-observable
quantities, such as “God”, the “quantum brain”, “phenomenalistic” accounts of experience,
“holistic” accounts of “Nirvana-like” psychological states, “observer-based
information”, “string theories”, “quantum loop gravity” theories, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">b)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 2) </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">the attitude of scientists to generalize their results
beyond their own experimental observations.
For example, it is easy to read, in the CONCLUSIONS of good papers, claims
such as: “we demonstrated that some Primates acquired the vision of the red;
this occurred because this novel ability gave them the evolutionary benefit to
detect red soft fruits in the green bushes’ background”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">In order to avoid the inconsistencies that undermine the (otherwise good)
legitimacy of scientific claims and to make them as accurate as possible, here
we provide a few suggestions concerning the very structure of scientific
propositions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our formulation of the required language for scientific propositions wants
to be as simple as possible and, at the same time, to encompass syntactic,
semantic and pragmatic concerns.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We take
into account the claims of several Authors and sources who tackled the
difficult issue to cope with the structure of scientific language: Galileo,
Mach, Frege, Brower, Carnap, Popper, Quine, Godel, Zermelo and Fraenkel,
Brigdman, Feyerabend, Kellogg and Bourland, Kripke, Gadamer, McGinn, Badiou.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">We suggest, so as to describe facts and observables of our physical and
social environment, to make use of phrases written or spoken according to the
following rules (provided in sparse order):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 1) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Never use the verb “to be”, including all its
conjugations, contractions and archaic forms. Indeed, the misuse of this verb might give
rise to a “deity mode of speech” that allows people “to transform their
opinions magically into god-like pronouncements on the nature of things”
(Kellogg and Bourland, 1990-91)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">2)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 2) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Clearly define the universe of discourse in which your
proposition is located.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">3)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 3) </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Define your concepts not in abstract terms, but in terms
either of observables, or, if observables are not properly definable, in a
language as closest to observable quantities as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">4)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 4) </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Do not compare and mix sets and subsets in the same context
(e.g., cat and feline).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">5)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 5) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Do not use the first order logic (based on universals
described in the very premises of the propositions), rather describe just the
relationships between the observables you are coping with.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">6)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 6) </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Use (at least qualitative) terms that indicate the
probability of an event. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">7)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 7) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Describe events or things that are (at least in
principle) testable. Otherwise, state
clearly that yours is just a speculation.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">8)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 8) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Do not generalize your descriptions, but take into
account just the specific content of what you are assessing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">9)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 9) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Be as vague as possible about cause/effect
relationships. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1010)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 10) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Do not make inferences not supported by your
data. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">11)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 11) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Do not use too formal or specialized languages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">12)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 12) </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Try you hidden your own theory-laden approach and your
personal considerations. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p><br></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Here we provide a few practical examples.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">John is nice.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">A lot of people state that John looks pleasant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">E=mc<sup>2</sup>
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">In our Universe, it has been demonstrated that a given experimentally
measured value of energy corresponds to a experimentally measured value of mass
at rest, multiplied for the fixed value of the speed light constant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The brain is equipped with a functional and anatomical
network consisting of edges and nodes, termed the connectome.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">When researchers experimentally assess brain activity and anatomy in
terms of network theory, they find anatomical and functional structures that
fully fit their theoretical framework and that they term the “connectome”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">John is ill, because he took the flu.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">John suffers an alteration of his statistically normal biological
parameters, because his Medical Doctor diagnosed, based on clinical and
epidemiological findings, the highly-probable occurrence of an infection due to
the Influenza virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Scientific studies of the brain must take into account
the first-person, epistemological phenomenalistic standpoint, because the
latter is the only way to gain sure knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">Some scientists and philosophers believe, in touch with the accounts of
the philosophical mainstream of the “phenomenalism”, that the better way to
gain knowledge from neuroscientific experimental procedures is to assess the subjective
first-person account, rather than the individual-unrelated experimental
findings detectable by objective operational procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">REFERENCES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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