PHILO RV3-ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN MIND The Identity of the Mind Flashcards
Levels or approaches in understanding the mind:
GENERAL LEVEL
PARTICULAR LEVEL:
How to distinguish mind and non-minds, or mental states and physical states, how beliefs hopes, fears, and desires differ from tables, mountains, and sunsets
From outside
GENERAL LEVEL
How to distinguish mental states from one another: how beliefs are different from pains, how belief in something that exists differs from something that does not exist.
From within
PARTICULAR LEVEL:
The Five Major Properties of the Mind
CONSCIOUSNESS
SUBJECTIVE QUALITY
INTENTIONALITY
ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY
PRIVACY
[] is awareness.
CONSCIOUSNESS
We are [] when we wake up, when we go about our day, when we make decisions, etc.
conscious
How do we know someone is conscious?
COGNITIONS (knowing, believing, understanding, thinking, reasoning)
EMOTIONS (love, fear, joy, sadness)
SENSATIONS (Pain, tickles, itches)
PERCEPTIONS (senses: seeing, hearing, etc).
QUASI-PERCEPTIONS (hallucinations, dreaming, imagining)
CONATIONS (acting, trying, wanting, intending)
(knowing, believing, understanding, thinking, reasoning)
COGNITIONS
(love, fear, joy, sadness)
EMOTIONS
(Pain, tickles, itches)
SENSATIONS
(senses: seeing, hearing, etc).
PERCEPTIONS
(hallucinations, dreaming, imagining)
QUASI-PERCEPTIONS
(acting, trying, wanting, intending)
CONATIONS
Pinakaimportant sa 5, walang kwenta yung 4 kung di ka conscious
It’s with us when we wake up, we can’t make decision if we are not conscious.
CONSCIOUSNESS
The particular way a person is aware of his/her own mental states, or undergoes his personal experiences
How your toothaches, how food is tasty, how music sounds, how sunset appears, etc.
Things are subjective from one person to another
QUALE (PL. QUALIA): the phenomenal/experiential feel
The answers to the question: What is like to experience something?
SUBJECTIVE QUALITY
The answers to the question: What is like to experience something?
SUBJECTIVE QUALITY
the phenomenal/experiential feel
QUALE (PL. QUALIA):
How your toothaches, how food is tasty, how music sounds, how sunset appears, etc.
SUBJECTIVE QUALITY
To be about something or to be directed at some objects or events in the world.
INTENTIONALITY
A belief is always a belief in something
INTENTIONALITY
The property of belief about something is the [] of the belief
INTENTIONALITY
[] Are inherent or original, unique in themselves, Their intention was not something we invented or created.
MENTAL STATES, INTENTIONALITY
Exists only when there is a subject (person or thing) who has them or experiences them. Nararamadaman natin, therefore they exist
ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY
cannot exist by themselves , they are dependent on a subject for their existence.
Mental states, ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY
Beliefs and fears cannot be cannot exist by themselves, they only exist bcause humans (or animals) experience them.
ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY
the property of certain things, physical objects exist by themselves, no conscious subject is needed for them to exist.
Example: trees, mountains, etc.
ONTOLOGICAL OBJECTIVITY
Mental states that are only known by the subject that has them.
PRIVACY
Example:
I have a headache. Only I know that, not unless people see in my actions or hear my words. Thus, headache is private only known to me.
PRIVACY
Pag di mo sinabi nararamdaman mo, they will stay private
PRIVACY
is the most fundamental of the Marks of the Mental. The rest are regarded as properties of consciousness.
Consciousness
The mind is conscious. [] of the mind have properties of ontological subjectivity, privacy, subjective quality, and intentionality.
Mental states
