HPS 0612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Qualia, Thematic Relation, Stage Illusions

• School: Pitt
• Department: History and Philosophy of Science
• Course: HPS 0612
• Professor: kelseyward

Document Summary

Sensing and perceiving are diferent the sensin the input and the perceiving is the processing. For descartes they aren"t really the same because the mechanical funcion. Sense is mechanical and perceiving is the work of the mind. Not fully conscious about all changes but the brain does receive a lot of that input. Mind body thesis there is always an ms and bs at the same ime. For next week read hdi chapter 1 and 7. All this is made up in the last ity years. Today is a bunch of isms that we are going to talk about. Ater this point we have no deiniive answers. Always asking two types of quesions ontological and causal quesion. Monism is that the mind and body are the same substance. Dualism is that body is physical but mind is non-physical. Dual aspect monism or neutral monism thinks that mind and body are the same substance.