PHILO RV3-ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN MIND The Identity of the Mind

Question 1

Levels or approaches in understanding the mind:

Answer 1

GENERAL LEVEL
PARTICULAR LEVEL:

Question 2

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

Answer 2

GENERAL LEVEL

Question 3

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

Answer 3

PARTICULAR LEVEL:

Question 4

The Five Major Properties of the Mind

Answer 4

CONSCIOUSNESS
SUBJECTIVE QUALITY
INTENTIONALITY
ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY
PRIVACY

Question 5

[] is awareness.

Answer 5

CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 6

We are [] when we wake up, when we go about our day, when we make decisions, etc.

Answer 6

conscious

Question 7

How do we know someone is conscious?

Answer 7

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)

Question 8

(knowing, believing, understanding, thinking, reasoning)

Answer 8

COGNITIONS

Question 9

(love, fear, joy, sadness)

Answer 9

EMOTIONS

Question 10

(Pain, tickles, itches)

Answer 10

SENSATIONS

Question 11

(senses: seeing, hearing, etc).

Answer 11

PERCEPTIONS

Question 12

(hallucinations, dreaming, imagining)

Answer 12

QUASI-PERCEPTIONS

Question 13

(acting, trying, wanting, intending)

Answer 13

CONATIONS

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 15

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?

Answer 15

SUBJECTIVE QUALITY

Question 16

The answers to the question: What is like to experience something?

Answer 16

SUBJECTIVE QUALITY

Question 17

the phenomenal/experiential feel

Answer 17

QUALE (PL. QUALIA):

Question 18

How your toothaches, how food is tasty, how music sounds, how sunset appears, etc.

Answer 18

SUBJECTIVE QUALITY

Question 19

To be about something or to be directed at some objects or events in the world.

Answer 19

INTENTIONALITY

Question 20

A belief is always a belief in something

Answer 20

INTENTIONALITY

Question 21

The property of belief about something is the [] of the belief

Answer 21

INTENTIONALITY

Question 22

[] Are inherent or original, unique in themselves, Their intention was not something we invented or created.

Answer 22

MENTAL STATES, INTENTIONALITY

Question 23

Exists only when there is a subject (person or thing) who has them or experiences them. Nararamadaman natin, therefore they exist

Answer 23

ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY

Question 24

cannot exist by themselves , they are dependent on a subject for their existence.

Answer 24

Mental states, ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY

Question 25

Beliefs and fears cannot be cannot exist by themselves, they only exist bcause humans (or animals) experience them.

Answer 25

ONTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY

Question 26

the property of certain things, physical objects exist by themselves, no conscious subject is needed for them to exist.
Example: trees, mountains, etc.

Answer 26

ONTOLOGICAL OBJECTIVITY

Question 27

Mental states that are only known by the subject that has them.

Answer 27

PRIVACY

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

PRIVACY

Question 29

Pag di mo sinabi nararamdaman mo, they will stay private

Answer 29

PRIVACY

Question 30

is the most fundamental of the Marks of the Mental. The rest are regarded as properties of consciousness.

Answer 30

Consciousness

Question 31

The mind is conscious. [] of the mind have properties of ontological subjectivity, privacy, subjective quality, and intentionality.

Answer 31

Mental states