PHL340H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Property, Supervenience, Behaviorism
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Functionalism a mind is a device capable of performing particular sorts of operation: to talk of minds and mental operations is to abstract from whatever. Physicalism in functionalism every mind is a material device of performing certain operations. Mental operations supervene on physical operations not the other way around because you could have different physical properties but the same mental properties (ex. Ge moore: value properties supervene on descriptive properties: if x is different in value from y (ex. moral value, beauty, worth, etc. Functions as properties of material objects skipped it in review* it is a property of a thing with a particular material constitution that it can pump blood . Turing machines can be physically realized and the conjecture was that any computable function can be computed by a turing machine says that minds are programmable turing machines: the motivation for that is that:
