COGS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter ch 2: Property Dualism, Personal Digital Assistant, Folk Psychology
29 May 2015
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The mind-body problem is a metaphysical one at heart because it seeks to understand whether the mental world is part of the physical material world. The mind-body problem addresses how psychological or mental properties are related to physical properties. The debate stems from a fundamental conception about what the mind. The mind as a nonphysical entity inhabiting the brain or some other physical entity is sometimes called the ghost in the machine. According to monism, there is only one kind of state or substance in the universe. Monoism idealism, seriously although it cannot be falsified. Imagine that everything you know isn"t real but is simply an illusion of reality. The world you perceive and understand exists only in your head although, in this universe, you don"t have a real head, so we can say this only colloquially. The attributes and behaviors of the atoms, he said, can explain the differences between things.
