PHIL 0460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Physicalism, Intentionality, Mental Property
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We are made up of the most basic particles of life, making us think like a physical system. When we think of ourselves as a mental system, we think of ourselves as agents, or believers. We are creatures who have beliefs, and we can act as pragmatic or do certain actions in certain ways. In a mental system, we see the world in a certain way. We think of ourselves as mentally different compared to other agents or believers. Everything that creates physical things can also create the mind (bosons, quarks, atoms, etc. This is a very hard question, since the relationship between the mental and physical world. What makes this question difficult is the various intuitions of philosophers between the mental and physical domain. Distinctiveness of the mental: there is something distinctive about mental phenomena- about minds and ental states-that sets them apart from purely physical phenomena.
