Ideas from 'Naturalizing the Mind' by Fred Dretske [1997], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Naturalizing the Mind' by Dretske,Fred [MIT 1997,0-262-54089-4]].

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

5806	Belief is the power of metarepresentation

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / f. Animal beliefs

5801	A mouse hearing a piano played does not believe it, because it lacks concepts and understanding

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

5802	Representations are in the head, but their content is not, as stories don't exist in their books

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness

5809	Some activities are performed better without consciousness of them

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia

5808	Qualia are just the properties objects are represented as having

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection

5803	In a representational theory of mind, introspection is displaced perception

5805	Introspection does not involve looking inwards

5807	Introspection is the same as the experience one is introspecting

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5804	A representational theory of the mind is an externalist theory of the mind

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism

5800	All mental facts are representation, which consists of informational functions