Taghi Kimiai Asadi

Taghi Kimiaei-Asadi was born in 1947 in Hamedan and completed his primary and secondary education there. He finished his general medical training in 1974 and then traveled to North America for further studies and specialized training. Kimiaei-Asadi trained in internal medicine, neurology, and the subspecialty of electrodiagnostic medicine, returning to Iran after receiving his board certification.

He worked for a time at Shahid Beheshti University and Loghman Hospital, during which period he published some of his specialized works on diseases of the brain, nerves, and muscles, including "Clinical Principles in the Diagnosis of Brain, Nerve, and Muscle Diseases." He later emigrated to the United States and spent many years practicing and conducting research at hospitals affiliated with universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University.

Kimiaei-Asadi's significance for audiences of philosophy and thought lies in the connection he establishes between neuroscientific knowledge and philosophical questions about the mind, consciousness, will, religion, and determinism and free will. In his book "The Creation and Evolution of the Brain and Mind," he examines the origin of life, the evolution of the brain, perception, memory, emotion, sleep, dreams, consciousness, and the sense of "self" from a biological and neuroscientific perspective.

He has also contributed to introducing topics in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to the Persian language through translations of works such as "Descartes' Error." In his works, the brain is understood as a biological and electrochemical apparatus, whose mechanisms must serve as the basis for explaining subjective experience, self-perception, and the problem of will.