PHLA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Mental Property, Neurophysiology, Aboutness
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The mind/body problem concerns the nature of the object and events that exist at stage 2. Dualism is the idea that there are two kinds of things in the world. There are physical objects on the one hand, and, on the other, there are mental objects. It says that your mind and your brain are one and the same object. Second, it claims that the mental properties you have are physical properties. E. g. to be in pain, is to have a certain type of physical event occur in your central nervous system. Analogy the discovery was that water h20 are one and the same thing. Philosophers who defend the mind/brain identity suggests that what happened to water will happen to the mind. Eventually neurophysiology will discover the nature of the mind. In each case, the answer will be given in the vocabulary provided by brain science.
