PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Weak Ai, Turing Test, Afterimage
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Carruthers thinks that all mental states are physical states. Lecture 7 is the mind a material thing? (continued) Some mental states are causally necessary for some physical events. Some mental states are the same as physical states. Causal closure of the physical every physical events has a physical cause. We are certain about our own experiences (being in pain) We are not certain about the physical events (brain events) Therefore our experiences are not brain events. Rebuttle: being certain you are in pain without being certain that your c-fibers are being stimulated does not proves they are different: privacy. Conscious states are private to an individual, brain states are not private (privacy of knowledge) Therefore mental states and physical states cannot be the same thing: value. Conscious states can be good or bad, wicked or admirable etc. Physical states cannot be good or bad, wicked or admirable etc. Mental and physical states not the same: colour.
