Single Idea 3994

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind]

Full Idea

Human pain might be one thing. Martian pain might be something else.

Clarification

'Martian pain' would be a quite different feeling, playing the same functional role as our 'pain'

Gist of Idea

Human pain might be one thing; Martian pain might be something else

Source

David Lewis (Lewis: reduction of mind (on himself) [1994], p.420)

Book Reference

'A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Guttenplan,Samuel [Blackwell 1995], p.420


A Reaction

A key suggestion in support of type-type physicalism, and against the multiple realisability objection to the identity theory