PHIL 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intentionality, Epiphenomenalism, Abstract And Concrete
6 Apr 2015
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Some parts of the mind are naturalizable others are not. Consciousness is the subjectivity of perception and qualitative stuff that happens to you. Nonspatiality : seems plausible, descarte was interested in, if something is material it occupies space, you can divide them into spatial parts, anything material you can chop into bits. Intentionality: it is about something, has to do with meaning, all meaningfulness comes from mentality flip side everything mental is about something. Special access: particular form of access to our own mental states, fundamentally different than ways we access anything else, Causal interaction (or epiphenomenalism) (eg. heart and lungs) you can"t say that things are causal unless you admit they are two different things, causal interaction two way. Identiy/reduction (e. g water and h2o) identity claim points to something twice, pain is nothing more than brain state, love is nothing more than a brain state.
