Alternative to JUST neuroscience: JUST BEHAVIOR [Patterns]
JUST the close empirical study OF BEHAVIOR PATTERNS can/could yield an account of ALL that is developing, MISSING NO CONNECTIONS (one can fully believe this if one is an empiricist aka science person; if you do not see this, think about it again and again and think only of possible findings in phenomenology and not in terms of ANY theory (you may invoke principles)).
There are obviously problems (to say the least) connecting brain activity to most important behavior patterns.
And, as an alternative: the study of BEHAVIOR _AS_ BEHAVIOR is empirically connecting the phenomena we are seeking to understand (behavior patterns). (Behavior patterns do "instrumentally" connect to other behavior patterns.)
The extreme reliance on neuroscience to support results in behavioral science is, for most important behavior patterns, an extremely crude source of support (terribly limited and ambiguous) .
That behavioral scientists put so much "stock" in neuroscience, frankly, just shows their desperation (as do "embodiment" 'theories' and "enactment" 'theories', for that matter -- but , with those 'theories', developing ideas in desperation elsewhere, other than using brain activity).
WE NEED:
The REAL ALTERNATIVE to what is actually a strange reliance on neuroscience (strange because it is crude and provides close to no guidance about relationships between actual, important behavior patterns).
_PLUS_ we need a REAL ALTERNATIVE to weird untestable theories, mentioned above, too: Same answer to both problems: Learn how to study BEHAVIOR PATTERNS _AS_ BEHAVIOR PATTERNS. If it is possible to do this thoroughly, there will be NO LACK OF CONNECTIONS (one set of phenomena to another). I believe this is possible and TRY TO THOROUGHLY OUTLINE HOW AND WHY (and contrast my view and approach -- in every way -- with status quo approaches) in my 800 pages of essays, all basically ON THIS better view and approach.
To gain entry to a thorough COMPLETE explication/exposition of such an alternative, see (for all the needed guiding links) the Question and the follow-up Answers to: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Isnt_grounding_all_interactions_our_understanding_of_particular_interaction_best_done_by_better_understanding_the_Memories_as_EXPERIENCE_ITSELF
(probably not the best Title for this Question.)
In the follow-up Answers (to this question), I provide links to Projects that, IN PROJECT LOG UPDATES, include basically a Preface to the Question here (starting this thread), but much, MUCH MORE.
The linked contents gets you to "everything",
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