PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Turing Machine, Multiple Realizability, Functional Analysis
10 Apr 2019
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No journal entry: running the exam again wednesday, average of the 2 grades or whichever is higher, grades can only go up. Functional analysis of a mental state: sensory input, motor output, relations to other mental states in probabilistic terms: concept of being annoyed can be articulated with the resources of the machine table. It is essential to the idea of a turing machine that it is not a physical machine, but an abstract one: a set of procedures. It can be made out of jello or wood or polyester! Identity theory: it is problematic that different animals and people have different brain structures (c fibres, p fibres: but not for this theory! You can build a turing machine out of wood, or of metal like a computer: turing machines are not physical objects, they are specified by what they do. Just like many different brain states equal to pain.
