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021122 Academic Research and Publishing Skills - Philosophy  - Mark Perkins

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Essay question

What makes something a mental state?

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Are there good reasons to think that the mind is immaterial?

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Are Behaviourism or Identity Theory defensible?

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If you have a mental state that does what pain does, are you in pain?

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How does consciousness fit into the natural order?

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You can ask any question or share your ideas here!

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I always wonder about the precondition of or thoughts.When we choose monism or dualism ，how can we firmly believe that our views are correct？ How will we verify this untouchable conclusion?

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I'm sorry that I have just finished my final exam in this term，so I post my questions later.And I'm interested in this question. At the present times, what can be create from the progress of philosophy of mind ？Can we get some disruptive change to apply in life？

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I have some interests in Predictive Processing(PP), which depicts the brain as an ever-active prediction machine.And it has two ways to understand the mind:Conservative PP and Radical PP.
However, I mention PP here, which does not mean that I fully agree with this theory，I wonder how to analyze the essence of this theory and how to understand the essence of the mind.

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Nowadays We thought less of traditional  Identity Theory,but we have some new interest in it because of Jaegwon Kim. So why we can learn from the derivatives of disapproved ideas?

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What is the relationship between consciousness and mind？Sometimes, the two words seem be replaced with each other.

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If the mind is a spaceless mental entity that does not exist in reality, is it different from the soul, and if so, what is the difference?

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The relationships(between consciousness and neural activity)  puzzle me:

1. How does consciousness arise as a result of particular neural processes and of the interactions among the brain, the body, and the world?

2. How can we understand different subjective states—so-called qualia—in neural terms? No matter how accurate the description of the physical processes underlying it, it is hard to conceive how the world of subjective experience—the seeing of blue and the feeling of warmth—springs out of mere physical events.

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What is the Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena. In Brentano's view, intentionality is the most significant feature of psychological phenomenon. How to understand intentionality?We can simply understand it as “about”？

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What does a scientific understanding of the mind mean? Does it mean a purely objective epistemological perspective? Is it possible? When we study mind, we do have a mind, does our own mind affect the study of the mind as an object? Or is feeling our own mind an important way of doing research when studying the mind?

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1.Recently,What criteria we propose for an activity to qualify as genuinely intelligent? Why artificial intelligence is not real intelligence?  Is AI  a purely material entity and therefore mindless?
2.How to understand the mind existing without our body? Can it be called"mind"？
3.How to transcend the limitations of dualism？

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In essence, Behaviourism and Identity theory are both a kind of reductionism, a mental state is identical to physical state(eg. behaviour,brain state). From what I have learned, It fails to be a persuasive theory of mind.

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Functionalism support the idea that consciousness is essentially a functional state, which stress the multiple realizability of mental states. But how it explain Searle's Chinese Room Experiment?

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Marxist philosophy is thoroughly materialistic, and he understands consciousness as the function of the human brain. His idea is essentially that consciousness is an advanced product of the development of the material world, an advanced form of motion, and capable of reacting against matter. But this can lead to a number of problems. For example, when consciousness reacts on matter, does consciousness act as an independent entity? If it only depends on matter, how can it react on matter? Moreover, does the fundamental question of philosophy, that of the relation of matter to consciousness, become the question of the relation of matter to matter? Does the problem still exist? I think one possible answer is that the brain is a very different advanced substance. But it was a far-fetched solution that didn't even satisfy me.

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Since functionalism acknowledges that the mind is a system, functioning like software, how can it be distinguished from dualism? Simply because functionalism holds that the body and mind are very different? But dualism also says they are two different entities. Does functionalism have a scientific basis? I know it has a close connection to cognitive psychology and computer science, but I don't know much about information theory and cybernetics.

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What is the significance of the results of brain science for the study of philosophy of mind? I read a limited amount of literature on brain science and could not understand much, but I did not find too many new ideas in these few literature, just support and refutation of traditional philosophical views. So is the significance of brain science for philosophy of mind to be verification? What is the legitimacy of this verification?

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Reading notes on Elements of Mind

Chapter1 (Mind)

Part1 Philosophy of Mind and the Study of Mental Phenomena

We have two views of ourselves. One is scientific, such as biology or evolutionary history. The other, which is not strictly scientific, includes concepts of mental phenomena, which is formed in society and is called folk psychology by some philosophers. Traditional speculative philosophy mainly uses the concept of mind in a non-scientific perspective, so it is particularly important to examine the relationship between the two different ways of understanding. Crane rejects a misapprehensive view of Brentano, which presupposes that we don’t have a rough-and-ready understanding of what a mind is, one that can be sharpened by applying the concept of intentionality. But Crane argues that Brentano is not defining the mind, but trying to articulate it, to give a sufficiently clear and detailed description of mental phenomena.

Comment: I think these two ways of understanding ourselves have exhausted all possibilities, but the non-scientific way is too vague. So I think there are three positive ways to understand ourselves: common sense, philosophy and science. Common sense is an empirical approach, a direct experience of the present. Science and philosophy help us to grasp ourselves through concepts, the former experimental, the latter speculative. (Maybe theology has a lot of theories about the mind, but I don't know about it, but I do know that Buddhism has a very systematic theory about the mind. So theology might be another way.)

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2022 JLU-CAM Philosophy of Mind-Lecture 2

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012122 Academic Writing Skills - Philosophy

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