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Single Idea 3456
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism
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Full Idea
Consciousness is a higher-level or emergent property of the brain, but only in the sense that solidity is an emergent property of water when it is ice, and liquidity when it melts.
Gist of Idea
Consciousness is a brain property as liquidity is a water property
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 1.IV)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.14
A Reaction
It is hard to know which side Searle is on. These examples are highly reductive, and make him a thoroughgoing reductive physicalist (with which I agree).
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[mind is a non-reducible physical property]:
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5779
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There are distinct sets of psychological and physical causal laws
[Russell]
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2587
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Temperature is mean molecular kinetic energy, but they are two different concepts
[Putnam]
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3405
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If mental causation is lawless, it is only possible if mental events have physical properties
[Davidson, by Kim]
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3966
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The correct conclusion is ontological monism combined with conceptual dualism
[Davidson]
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3453
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Property dualism is the reappearance of Cartesianism
[Searle]
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3455
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Property dualists tend to find the mind-body problem baffling
[Searle]
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3456
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Consciousness is a brain property as liquidity is a water property
[Searle]
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3475
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Property dualism denies reductionism
[Searle]
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3376
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We can't assess evidence about mind without acknowledging phenomenal properties
[Kim]
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3424
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Most modern physicalists are non-reductive property dualists
[Kim]
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2489
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Why bother with neurons? You don't explain bird flight by examining feathers
[Fodor]
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2985
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Are beliefs brains states, but picked out at a "higher level"?
[Lyons on Fodor]
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4070
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Properties dualism says mental properties are distinct from physical, despite a single underlying substance
[Crane]
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2406
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H2O causes liquidity, but no one is a dualist about that
[Chalmers]
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4593
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'Property dualism' says mind and body are not substances, but distinct families of properties
[Heil]
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6622
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Non-reductive physicalism accepts token-token identity (not type-type) and asserts 'supervenience' of mind and brain
[Lowe]
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3520
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Token-identity removes the explanatory role of the physical
[Maslin]
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