Let us keep our ontology and epistemology separate!

Gold & Stoljar are light in their thesis but incomplete in not. pointing ou t that there are many other arguments from cognate sciences suggesting that a radical eliminativist neuroreductionism is unlikely to be achieved. The radical neuron doctrine they criticize is only a hoped for dogma that canno t be verified, whereas a constrained monistic materialism (with only partia l reductionism) is subject to immediate test by applying such criteria as c ombinatorial complexity and thermodynamic irreversibility.