PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Biological Naturalism, Turing Machine, Cosmological Argument
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Last week we were looking at objectivity, subjectivity and value in science, and then began thinking about the concept of mind. This mind-body problem, and the related problem of consciousness. Gilbert ryle college but also considerably different, so the repudiators of mechanism represented minds as extra centers of causal processes, rather like machines but causes and effects, but different sorts of causes and effects from bodily movements. Rather as the foreigner expected the university to be an extra edifice, rather like a. Ryle thinks it is a kind of category mistake to regard the mind as a (cid:498)substance(cid:499) undergoing its own pseudo-mechanical processes parallel to the body(cid:495)s(cid:495). Ryle (cid:498)the representation of a person as a ghost mysteriously ensconced. But he denied he was a behaviorist, like skinner who thought that statements behave, or that the mind just is a set of such dispositions.
