PHL 201 Lecture 9: PHL 201 - Week 3 - Lecture 9
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Phl 201 - week 3 - lecture 9. When discussing the relations of ideas, go in depth! Pretending to be in pain but not really in pain. Central claim: mental states are numerically identical to brain states; the mind is the brain. Behaviorism fails because it doesn"t account for mental causation. The need for an account of mental causation. Simpler than substance dualism, accounts for more data and offers premise in further research. Since we can"t directly observe that mind = brain, we must show that mental states match physical states such that it"s evident both are numerically the same. Ir: old theory/concepts recast in terms of newer (better) theory/concepts. Pain sensation vs. c-fiber firing sequence e (these aren"t true numbers, but as an example ) pain = c-fiber x9 . If mental states are identical to brain states then mind is the brain. Neural dependence of the mental; drugs: changing brain to change mind.
