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What is Mind? Flashcards

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What is the Mind-Body Problem

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The problem of describing and explaining the relationship between our mental states and our physical states

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Ontological

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Looking at the nature of things

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What is the Hard Problem of conciousness

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The problem of analysing and explaining the phenomenal properties of consciousness, “what it is like to” undergo a conscious experience

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Phenomenal Conciousness

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A form of consciousness with a subjective, experimental quality as involved in perception, sensation, emotion
Awareness of ‘what it is like’ to experience such a mental phenomena

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Intentionality

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The property of mental states whereby they are directed towards an “intentional object”- they are ‘about’ something

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Intentional States

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Represent the world in a particular and partial way

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Intentional States

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Represent the world in a particular and partial way

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Intentional Content

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Intentional object + asceptual shape

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Intentional Object

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What an intentional mental state represents

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Aspectual Shape

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The way the intentional object is being represented

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What is “attitude”

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The psychological verb we would use for the intentional state

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Examples of an “attitude”

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Hating or Don’t like

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Phenomenal Property

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The properties of an experience which gives it its distinctive experimental quality and which are apprehended in phenomenal consciousness

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Qualia

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Phenomenal properties which are understood as intrinsic, non-intentional and introspectively accessible properties of mental states

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Intrinsic Property

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A property something has in and of itself

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Non intentional

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Non relational property

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Introspection

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Turning our attention to our own minds

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Substance

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An entity which does not depend upon another entity for its continued existence

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What can a substance have in relation ontology

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It has ontological independence and properties are dependent on substances

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What are the three objections to Descartes’s indivisibility argument?

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  1. The mind can indivisible
  2. Not all things that are physical are divisible
  3. Minds may not be considered substances
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How does Descartes respond to objection 1 of his indivisibility argument?

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He states that the mind may be functionally divisible but he persists that the mind is not spatially divisible

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Explain the proposition “Water is not H2O” and why it’s wrong

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This is not logically possible for us; however at one point when humans didn’t know that water and H2O were the same substance- it was.
What is logically possible changes with our concepts

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Define “clear” in terms of metaphysics of mind

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You understand and grasp all of the information contained within the concept or proposition and how different bits of information within the concept or proposition and how the different bits of information within the concept or proposition relate to one another

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What does “distinct” mean in terms of metaphysics of mind

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You understand how those related bits of information distinguish that concept or proposition from other concepts or propositions

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What is the essential property of the mind

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Thought

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What is the essential property of the body

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Extension

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Outline Leibniz’s law of indiscernibility of identicals

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If X and Y are identical, then X and Y have all their properties in common. Therefore, if X and Y have different properties then they are not identical

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Fill in the gaps:
“The mind is essentially /////_ and //////”

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Unified and indivisible

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Fill in the gaps:
“The body is essentially /////_ and //////

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Unified and divisible

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