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[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
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Full Idea
I don't maintain, of course, that human consciousness does not exist; I maintain that it is not what people often think it is.
Gist of Idea
I don't deny consciousness; it just isn't what people think it is
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Sweet Dreams [2005], Ch.3)
Book Ref
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Sweet Dreams' [MIT 2005], p.71
A Reaction
I consider Dennett to be as near as you can get to an eliminativist, but he is not stupid. As far as I can see, the modern philosopher's bogey-man, the true total eliminativist, simply doesn't exist. Eliminativists usually deny propositional attitudes.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[there is no such thing as mind, only the brain]:
5997
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Dicaearchus said soul does not exist, but is just a configuration of the body
[Dicaearchus, by Fortenbaugh]
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9285
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'Consciousness' is a nonentity, a mere echo of the disappearing 'soul'
[James]
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3131
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Quine expresses the instrumental version of eliminativism
[Quine, by Rey]
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2344
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If we are going to eliminate folk psychology, we must also eliminate folk logic
[Putnam]
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5800
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All mental facts are representation, which consists of informational functions
[Dretske]
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3377
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Elimination can either be by translation or by causal explanation
[Kim]
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7366
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It is arbitrary to say which moment of brain processing is conscious
[Dennett]
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7380
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Visual experience is composed of neural activity, which we find pleasing
[Dennett]
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4988
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Folk psychology may not be reducible, but that doesn't make it false
[Kirk,R on Churchland,PM]
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4987
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Eliminative materialism says folk psychology will be replaced, not reduced
[Churchland,PM]
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4876
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Maybe there is a minimum brain speed for supporting a mind
[Dennett]
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7656
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I don't deny consciousness; it just isn't what people think it is
[Dennett]
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4984
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All meaningful psychological statements can be translated into physics
[Kirk,R]
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2954
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Identity theory likes the identity of lightning and electrical discharges
[Lockwood]
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3140
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If you explain water as H2O, you have reduced water, but not eliminated it
[Rey]
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3134
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Human behaviour can show law-like regularity, which eliminativism can't explain
[Rey]
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5342
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Physicalism doesn't deny that the essence of an experience is more than its neural realiser
[Flanagan]
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4609
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It seems contradictory to be asked to believe that we can be eliminativist about beliefs
[Heil]
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Eliminativism is incoherent if it eliminates reason and truth as well as propositional attitudes
[Lowe]
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