PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Chocolate Cake, Type Physicalism, Color Vision
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Phil 101 lecture notes weeks 11, 12, 13. Vitalism: things have are alive have some vital non-physical substance. ( lan vital) However, it is bizarre to explain natural processes such as digestion, and even natural processes in the brain, with a substance of the sort. The mind-brain identity theory asserts an a posteriori discovery of the identity between the mind and the brain. Lightning is one and the same thing as a kind of electrical discharge. The mind may be one and the same thing as the many chemical and electrical reactions that take place in the brain! Principle of parsimony we should prefer explanations that minimize the number of entities, processes and events they postulate. This principle justifies that since identity theory is simpler than substance dualism, it is more likely true. O: perfect correlation between some neural activity and some mental processes or events. H1: identity theorist: the mental events simply are neurophysiological events.
