PHIL 110 Lecture 1: 7.1 - Terms
24 Nov 2020
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The central metaphysical problem in the philosophy of mind is the mind-body problem. The view that there are two types of substances orrealities in conscious beings, that is mind and matter. The emergent property view says that in nature the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts. Nature exhibits a hierarchy of systems subatomicparticles, atoms, molecules, cells, organs, and organisms. Each whole manifests properties that its parts lack. For example, water has the property wetness, which its parts, h2o molecules, lack. Likewise, the mind is a whole, which has the property of consciousness, which its individual parts lack. This view is related to epiphenomenalism (see next). A version of dualism that holds that bodily eventscause mental events, but mental events do not cause bodily events. The action is one way only, from body to mind. The mind is a byproduct of the brain as smoke is abyproduct of fire (see property.
