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[German Version] Great progress in experimental brain research on animals has led to first therapies of brain illnesses (neurological and psychiatric drugs, operations [e.g. for Parkinson's disease] involving so-called brain pacemakers or the transplantation of embryonic human or pig brain cells). From the standpoint of brain physiology, human beings can be defined by the development of the cerebrum (Evolution). Human brain research is possible in principle (“brain understands brain function”), bu…

[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Natural Sciences – III. Philosophy – IV. Philosophy of Religion and Fundamental Theology I. Religious Studies The modern development of the concept of consciousness, in conjunction with the simultaneous concern for data in religious studies, has led to the question of the locus and understanding of consciousness in non-European systems of thought and religion. The underlying reality of the basic Western understanding of consciousness, which was rathe…