PHIL 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eliminative Materialism, Materialism, Multiple Realizability
14 Mar 2016
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If it is shown that a rainbow does not exist, then we can get rid of this illusion. A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that is cased by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. Water is nothing but h2o; still water and in h2o have different features. Water is a certain arrangements of h2o molecules. First-person perspective: subjective experience of being in pain. What makes something a mental state depends not on its internal constitution; but solely on its function, or the causal role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part. Mental states are determined by their causal relations to sensory stimulations, other mental states, and behavior. Pain is a state that tends to be caused by bodily injury, producing the belief that something is wrong with the body and the desire to be out of that state.
