Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, E Margolis/S Laurence and William Lycan
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15 ideas
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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If energy in the brain disappears into thin air, this breaches physical conservation laws [Lycan]
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6528
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In lower animals, psychology is continuous with chemistry, and humans are continuous with animals [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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6554
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Two behaviourists meet. The first says,"You're fine; how am I?" [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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If functionalism focuses on folk psychology, it ignores lower levels of function [Lycan]
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6541
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Functionalism must not be too abstract to allow inverted spectrum, or so structural that it becomes chauvinistic [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism
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Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan]
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6539
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The distinction between software and hardware is not clear in computing [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism
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6533
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Mental types are a subclass of teleological types at a high level of functional abstraction [Lycan]
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6535
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Teleological characterisations shade off smoothly into brutely physical ones [Lycan]
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A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
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Identity theory is functionalism, but located at the lowest level of abstraction [Lycan]
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Body-type seems to affect a mind's cognition and conceptual scheme [Margolis/Laurence]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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We reduce the mind through homuncular groups, described abstractly by purpose [Lycan]
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Teleological functionalism helps us to understand psycho-biological laws [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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A Martian may exhibit human-like behaviour while having very different sensations [Lycan]
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