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'The Problem of the Soul', 'Meditations' and 'Intro to 'Self-Representational Consciousness''
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 3. Mental Causation
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Can the pineal gland be moved more slowly or quickly by the mind than by animal spirits? [Spinoza on Descartes]
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In the 17th century a collisionlike view of causation made mental causation implausible [Flanagan]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds
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We discovers others as well as ourselves in the Cogito [Sartre on Descartes]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
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Faculties of the mind aren't parts, as one mind uses them [Descartes]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness
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Consciousness is reductively explained either by how it represents, or how it is represented [Kriegel/Williford]
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Experiences can be represented consciously or unconsciously, so representation won't explain consciousness [Kriegel/Williford]
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Red tomato experiences are conscious if the state represents the tomato and itself [Kriegel/Williford]
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How is self-representation possible, does it produce a regress, and is experience like that? [Kriegel/Williford]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought
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Unfortunately, higher-order representations could involve error [Kriegel/Williford]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy
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Only you can have your subjective experiences because only you are hooked up to your nervous system [Flanagan]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
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Descartes put thought at the centre of the mind problem, but we put sensation [Rey on Descartes]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties
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Descartes mentions many cognitive faculties, but reduces them to will and intellect [Descartes, by Schmid]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination
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Imagination and sensation are non-essential to mind [Descartes]
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