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Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness, and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain.
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How does Analytical Idealism justify empirical truth claims?
In Analytical Idealism (e.g., Bernardo Kastrup’s framework), reality is a mental construct within universal consciousness, unlike physicalism’s mind-independent world. How does this view justify ...
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Is The Mind-Body Problem even a “problem” for reductive physicalists? [duplicate]
What does reductive physicalism have to say about the mind-body problem? Is it a defeater? If so, what kind of ontological or epistemic commitments would one have to make?
If it’s the case (under a ...
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Help understanding Meinong's mind as object
In Meinong’s theory of mind, self-presentation (Selbstpr?sentation) is described as a mark of consciousness. Mental experiences are said to present themselves directly to the subject, without ...
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Wittgenstein's argument against Cartesian duality?
His work in the Philosophy of mind is just as important as his work in
the philosophy of language, and it's a very effective attack on the
Cartesian tradition—on the idea that we really live in Two ...
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Buridan's Ass and Murder by Omission
In many Jurisdictions an omission falls under criminal act (a murder can be commited by ommision) if
A person has a specific responsibility to act (prevent an outcome like death) the responsibility ...
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Connecting Associationism (e.g., Hume) to Behaviorism (e.g., Skinner)
I am trying to understand how Behaviorism grew out of Associationism. Reading the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on "Associationism in the Philosophy of Mind", Section 3 gives a ...
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Telepathy-safe thinking [closed]
How can a person engage in telepathy-safe thinking, that is, thoughts, such that, if other people read your mind, you will still be safe?
Thanks.
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Does the Brain's Computational Nature Account for Private Phenomenal Experience?
Background
I've been grappling with some ideas lately.
Maley's Argument: The Brain as a Literal Computational System
Maley contends that the brain is fundamentally computational because it processes ...
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If something cannot be seen as fundamentally excuting computation can it still be physical?
A recurring worry is that CTM (computational theory of the mind) is
trivial, because we can describe almost any physical system as
executing computations.
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
Can the ...
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Do the information about the things that the brain can see or imagine depend on the physical structure of the brain?
Does the information about the things that the brain can see or conceive/imagine depend on the physical structure of the brain (through some kind of informational patterns in the neurons)?
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Paraconsistent Turing Machines (their theoretical foundations and on claims of us being PTMs)
How well is the idea of paraconsistent turing machines explored? I have been reading and the only references which seem to pop up is of papers by JC Agudelo.
Regarding how I came across this is ...
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Are purposes essentially ideas, making them inherently subjective and mind-dependent?
The proposition that purpose is inherently mind-dependent warrants examination. Consider a hypothetical world devoid of consciousness – perhaps an early Earth inhabited solely by microorganisms. If we ...
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Does our sub-conscious Mind hold the Structure of Conscious Mind? [closed]
I am starting from couple of my Beliefs :). My Beliefs are
We Experience "thought" and neither Mind nor Belief.
Thoughts get converted into Beliefs.
Beliefs shape your Mind
Thought is ...
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What are the consequences of Szilard engine for philosphy of the mind?
I'm searching for philosophers who rigorously analyzed the Szilard engine and its implication for the philosophy of the mind? More so what are its consequences?
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What other motivations exist for Orch-OR besides Penrose-Lucas?
Sir Roger Penrose quite famously believes that human minds have capabilities exceeding that of even the most powerful (realizable) notions of "computers," having written at least Emperor's ...
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