PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Computational Theory Of Mind, Thought Experiment, Sentience
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Folk psychology assumes a rational human being"s psychology is explainable by propositional attitudes and some folk psychological morns or inferences or "laws" Assuming mary is a rational human being, she is running because she is in a hurry. If mary loves john, then she must like john as well. Reductive physicalism seems not compatible with folk psychology. Computationalism holds that folk psychology can be translated into the language of thought. Computationalism assumes that propositional attitudes are relations to. Mentalese symbols and thinking or inference is the manipulation of the language of thought. If i believe that john loves mary, then i also believe that. Much like english, each mentalese symbol has its own meaning and the combination of such symbols generates a meaning. A rational human being takes an attitude towards a particular proposition. A person"s attitudes are related in a systematic (rational) way.
