01:730:329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Philosophical Zombie, Mental Property, Supervenience
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Conceivability possibility nature of mental states. Supervenience - a-properties locally supervene on b-properties if and only if ant 2 possible individuals that are the same with respect to the a properties are also the same with respect to the b-properties. Temperature supervenes on the velocities and positions of gas particles. If the mental cannot supervene on the physical, then it cannot rely on the physical. Mental properties locally supervene on the physical properties if and only if any 2 possible individuals that the same with respect to the physical properties, are also the same with respect to mental properties. A properties globally supervene on the b properties iff any 2 possible that are the same with respect to the b properties are also the same with respect to the a properties. You can have someone that looks exactly like me but lacks consciousness. Conventional zombies look an act very different from humans.
