PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pineal Gland, Materialism, Hilary Putnam
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The behaviourism viewpoint: the mind is behavioural, only insofar as we have patterns of behaviour, only important insofar as the brain is related to our behaviours. The dualist position (a review from week 2: there are two kinds of substances. Physical-stuff: i am, i exist , i am a thing that thinks, my mind and body interact through the pineal body! We have bodies and we have minds. Bodies exist in physical space are subject to physical laws. Minds are not in space and are not subject to physical laws. Assumptions: there are two different kinds of existence: physical. Composed of matter, situated in space; connected to other bits of matter: mental. Composed of consciousness; situated in minds; no connection to other minds. We can know what"s going on in our own minds to a point. I don"t have access to other minds, i can only infer.
