Philosophy 1200 Lecture 3: Thinking and Representation
30 Oct 2018
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Thinking is a process, it is the transition from one concept to another. Are our way of representing the world, they are the basic units of thought. No agreed definition of what concepts are. Ex. toaster, anything that responds to the environment. Ex. robots, must respond to the environment is a self-interested way. Mental file (they are only metaphors of thought, no the actual definition) We represent what matters to us (subjective) No such thing as objective representations, only subjective. Representations are powerful tools for thinking, as it allows us to refer to some common object.
