PHL240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Physicalism, Afterimage, Intentionality
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On wednesday, we try to formulate materialist position, and what minimal position you need to hold in order to be a physicalist. Keep it short (in some cases in just a sentence or two) For question 1 and 2, for first part of each question, just say yes or no. For 2, just a yes or no question followed by some explanation. 4 probably require the most words in response. 5 need to read searle a little bit. Intentionality your thoughts about ice cream are about ice cream: our mental states have original intentionality. The content of your mental states are about things in the world: words like snow" have intentionality only thanks to individuals with original intentionality like us. Searle"s chinese room argument says that instantiating a computer program is insufficient for originating intentionality, or what searle calls understanding.
