Single Idea 2447

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 4. Connectionism]

Full Idea

What Hume didn't see was that the causal and representational properties of mental symbols have somehow to be coordinated if the coherence of mental life is to be accounted for.

Gist of Idea

Hume has no theory of the co-ordination of the mind

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)

Book Reference

Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.85


A Reaction

Certainly the idea that it all somehow becomes magic at the point where the brain represents the world is incoherent - but it is a bit magical. How can the whole of my garden be in my brain? Weird.