PNB 2XE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reductionism, Psychophysics
16 Jan 2018
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Monday January 8th
Lecture 1- Negal Article
Negal Article Quiz
• Psychophysics in the article refers to the psychology of the mind and physics of the brain
• Reductionism- No model of the brain can account for the subjective nature of the mind
• We cannot know the subjective state of the bat because we lack the sensory apparatus
to echolocate
• With regard to the relation between an objective view of the world and a subjective
view- an objective understanding will not help us understand subjective view
Article structure
• Each first sentence of every paragraph makes sense together
• Each paragraph follows from the rest
• Relation of last sentence of the paragraph to the first
• End of a paragraph to the beginning of the next must flow as well
Negal
• Consciousness and its subjectivity
• Subjective experience of actually experiencing something (feeling)
• Reductionism will not help
• Sujetive doesn’t equal ojetive
• Bats have experience
• Different from ours
Subjective Nature of Perception
• Colour is subjective
• Rainbow example
We cannot truly understand an experience objectively without actually experiencing and feeling
it subjectively.
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