Problems with materialism Flashcards
1
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Identity problem
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How can events be experienced as the same despite the different brain states. how do people communicate if brain states differ? Problem for reductive
2
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Mental states
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Explain behaviour, belief-desire psychology. It’s part of folk psych so can’t be explained by reductionists. How do mental states exist?
3
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Subjective experience
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4
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Type-type identity
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Reductionist. One type of identity is created by one type of brains tate
5
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Token-token identity
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Non-reductionist: multiple tokens (mental states) can be realised by multiple tokens (brain states)
