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Single Idea 4920
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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Full Idea
The nuts and bolts of thinking - holding ideas in mind and manipulating them - takes place on the upper side of the prefrontal cortex.
Clarification
The 'prefrontal cortex' is at the top of the head, near the front
Gist of Idea
Thinking takes place on the upper side of the prefrontal cortex
Source
Rita Carter (Mapping the Mind [1998], p.312)
Book Ref
Carter,Rita: 'Mapping the Mind' [Phoenix 2000], p.312
A Reaction
Keep this firmly in view! Imagine that the skull is transparent, and brain activity moves in waves of colour. Dualism would, in those circumstances, never have even occurred to anyone.
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7550
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9317
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3474
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If mind is caused by brain, does this mean mind IS brain?
[Searle]
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3500
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6986
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Is the dependence of the psychological on the physical a priori or a posteriori?
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3433
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The core of the puzzle is the bridge laws between mind and brain
[Kim]
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4900
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3989
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I am a reductionist about mind because I am an a priori reductionist about everything
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7657
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Intelligent agents are composed of nested homunculi, of decreasing intelligence, ending in machines
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7879
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Mind-brain reduction is less explanatory, because phenomenal concepts lack causal roles
[Papineau]
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20971
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Weak reduction of mind is to physical causes; strong reduction is also to physical laws
[Papineau]
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21834
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Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be
[Flanagan]
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10826
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'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism
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6530
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We reduce the mind through homuncular groups, described abstractly by purpose
[Lycan]
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6536
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Teleological functionalism helps us to understand psycho-biological laws
[Lycan]
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7704
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Reduction of intentionality involving nonexistent objects is impossible, as reduction must be to what is actual
[Jacquette]
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4597
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Early identity theory talked of mind and brain 'processes', but now the focus is properties
[Heil]
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4903
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Scans of brains doing similar tasks produce very similar patterns of activation
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4920
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Thinking takes place on the upper side of the prefrontal cortex
[Carter,R]
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4688
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8685
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