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'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Mind and Body' and 'Reality and Representation'
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9 ideas
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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Dualism implies some brain events with no physical cause, and others with no physical effect [Kirk,R]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 1. Behaviourism
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Behaviourism seems a good theory for intentional states, but bad for phenomenal ones [Kirk,R]
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Behaviourism offers a good alternative to simplistic unitary accounts of mental relationships [Kirk,R]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour
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In 'holistic' behaviourism we say a mental state is a complex of many dispositions [Kirk,R]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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The inverted spectrum idea is often regarded as an objection to behaviourism [Kirk,R]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism
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Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
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All meaningful psychological statements can be translated into physics [Kirk,R]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 4. Connectionism
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Instead of representation by sentences, it can be by a distribution of connectionist strengths [Kirk,R]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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If mental states are multiply realisable, they could not be translated into physical terms [Kirk,R]
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