PHILOS 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thermostat, Multiple Realizability, Lectern
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7/28 _____ paper, 7/29 black paper, 7/30 searle paper, we have a vocabulary we use to describe and make sense of what we say and do of a psychological nature. We attribute beliefs, desires, emotions, sensation, etc: naive realism: captures the standpoint of ordinary common sense perspective, there are in your head beliefs and desires and experiences and headaches. With sufficient tech we could look in your head and check. a. i. Beliefs are not in your head, what makes it the case that you really desire something isn"t the tokening of some structure in your brain. When we talk about your beliefs and desires we are talking about you, not things going on inside you - like your relationship to your environment relative to your needs in your situation. A system whose behavior is predicted by taking up the intentional strategy. They have a directedness toward things which are beyond themselves.
