PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Electric Light, Realizability, Hans Driesch
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Phla10 lecture 20 the philosophy of mind ii (continued) Accept that there are mental states in a being: the mental states/interior states of the brain explain behaviour. It is an a posteriori theory: there is a purely philosophical arguments for it, unlike dualism and behaviourism. It asserts that science has (or will) show that the best explanation of the nature of the mind is that mind is identical to (a working) brain. Our understanding of mind will follow a path similar to many other previous mysteries: lightning, chemicals and atomic theory, life and chemistry. The most common early belief was that life involves something beyond the material world, many people nowadays consider the possibility that all that life is is some complicated chemical process. Many; can never bring life out of themselves, nor make one another to be vital. If a computer is sawed in half, it won"t work anymore) The dna revolution provides framework of answer to vitalism.
