01:730:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Category Mistake
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It shows that an individual cannot solely be dependent upon their sense to understand what is currently going on and what state they are in. Your mind, further, teaches you how to use these given senses and how to understand them and differentiate certain things apart. Intelligence allows these things to help an individual to understand: not every mistake is a category-mistake. It is possible to think this is a mistake without being that of a category mistake. The dualism of the mind and body may be at fault when thought that an accident made by the mind led to an accident by the body, which can happen. If the analysis is right, neuroscience is relevant to understanding what pain is. It can identify where and why people feel certain things and why they may not in certain situations. When searle responds, he does not avoid this fallacy.