PHIL 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Turing Test, Truncated Cube, Thought Experiment
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Statements about the mind and mental states turn out, after analysis, to be equivalent to statements that describe a person"s actual and potential public behaviour. The mind does cause behaviour it is behaviour. No speculation about how non-physical properties can emerge from underlying physical processes is rendered redundant. Able to witness others behaviour, their mind in action. Statements describing mental or psychological states can be translated without loss of meaning, into ones describing possible and actual behaviour. Terms comprising the analysis must not contain or presuppose any of the mental vocabulary that is being analysed or the argument will be circular. A causes b, not: a causes b and b happens because of a circular. Cannot logically conclude an effect from its cause, or a cause from its effect. The analysis of a phenomenon cannot contain the phenomenon to be analysed. Only had to be verified in principle, not practice.
