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I assume that neurology and psychology will converge or one of them will be forgotten by the way side. I don't see how bodies and brains can be temporary vehicles for consciousness. If you mean that the state of our brains can be transferred to a machine in some sort of readout and that machine is capable of consciousness - then that machine becomes our brain/body replacement. A disembodied consciousness is something I cannot imagine.
Could psychology not be found to be still useful when considering human behaviors at a different level of abstraction (or, indeed, with different forms of experimentation)?
Yes, of course, psychology and neurology could exist together using different levels of abstraction and different methods - like physics and chemistry. But if they disagree on fundamentals and cannot converge then I don't think they can stay that way for long.
Agreed concerning the need for a processing platform. Not so sure about the convergence of psych and neuro for same reason. If the same psych rules can apply to a consciousness regardless of platform, then neurology not applicable in that case.