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Lecture 7 the Mind-Body problem Flashcards

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hebben we nu al een antwoord op de mind-body problem

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nee, nog steeds zijn deze vragen niet beantwoord

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wat is het overkoepelende probleem van mind body

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elke theorie heeft voor en nadelen.

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monism =

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there is only one kind of substance

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dualism =

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there are two kinds of substances

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monism splitst in …

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materialism & idealism

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materialism =

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ultimately everything is material

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idealism=

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ultimately everything is mental

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dualism splitst in…

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haha instinker

dualism kan alleen substance-dualism zijn

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substance-dualism =

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mind and body are kinds of distinct entities

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descartes had een …. view of the world

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mechanistic

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wat zei descartes over mind and body

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mind and body must be different entities, as the body is a machine but the mind is not

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wat dacht descartes over animals

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dacht dat zij ook machines waren (alles was machines, except for the mind -> spiritual substance)

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3 problemen van descartes

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  • interaction problem
  • causal closure problem
  • brain damage problem
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interaction problem:

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How can a nonmaterial entity cause physical
events?

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causal closure problem:

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if every physical event has a physical cause, where does the mind enter?
how about the law of conservation of energy?

causal closure betekent dat elke verandering in de fysieke wereld een fysieke oorzaak heeft. dit roept dus de vraag op hoe de een spirituele substance dan ook een invloed hierop uit kan oefenen.

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brain damage problem:

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why would a nonmaterial entity react to brain damage?

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who raised the interaction problem

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elisabeth, princess of bohemia

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Nowadays, no theory can afford to be
inconsistent with established scientific
theory without answering for it

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oke

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the teleportation test

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suppose that you teleport someone: what would happen? does the mind travel with you, or not?

(hiermee kan je testen of je meer materialistic of dualistic bent)

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welke vraag kan je nog meer stellen over mind body problem

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where do you think the mind goes when you sleep? does it stay on or off?

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telecopying=

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instead of moving the particles of the body, you copy them. would that mean that you get two minds, or not?

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materialism kenmerken

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  • The materialist maintains that, in the end, there is only matter
  • The concept of “matter” is however quite flexible (so fields, states, processes, functions, etc. all count as “material”)
  • Most important is that the mind, whatever it may be, is a part of physical world and obeys the laws of nature
  • This still leaves many possibilities for exactly what the mind is
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hoe staan we er nu een beetje in

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  • Thinking about mind and body as separate entities seems easy
  • However, as soon as we ask the question “how would that work?” it turns out we don’t really have a good answer
  • The inability to provide a reasonable theory of mind-body interaction has led to demise of dualism in scientific circles

(dus bijna niemand is meer een dualist)

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wat is kritiek op materialism

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without a spiritual mind, its hard to explain how and why we have conscious mental states.

3 lastige knelpunten:
- mental states, or not?
- reductionism, or not?
- subjective experience, or not?

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mental states =

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a state of mind of a person, that explains behaviour (wanting ice cream + knowing where to buy ice cream = buying ice cream)

=belief-desire psychology

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example of mental states model

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the theory of planned behaviour:

attitute + subjective norm + perceived behavioural control —–> intention —-> behaviour

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wat is het probleem van mental states bij materialism

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how can mental states receive a respectable place in the scientific explanation of behaviour? if the mind does not exist as a distinct substance, then how can mental states exist at all? or is it all an illusion, and should we eliminate mental states (beetje behaviourism)

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eliminative materialism=

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deny the existence of mental states. mental states are not real and will not appear in the ultimate description of the universe.

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wat zegt eliminative materialism over folk psychology

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folk psychology is just like naive physics, with scientific progress it will disappear

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welk koppel hoort bij eliminative materialism

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paul and patricia churchland

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Interviewer: Are there any implications
of neuroscience that you feel unsettled
by?
Patricia Churchland: I’d have to say no.
It takes some getting used to, but I’m
not freaked out by it. I certainly
understand the ambivalence people
have. On one hand, they’re fascinated
because it helps explain their mother’s
Alzheimer’s, but on the other, they
think, “Gosh, the love that I feel for my
child is really just neural chemistry?”
Well, actually, yes, it is. But that doesn’t
bother me

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oke

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wat is kritiek op eliminative materialism

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  • a bridge too far for many scientists
  • mental states appear too important for the explanation of behaviour to dismiss them
  • it is unclear what should take the place of ordinary belief-desire explanations of behaviour, neuroscience that can do this is currently science fiction
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welke vormen van materialism hebben het wel over mental states, en welke niet

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wel: reductive & non-reductive materialism (=non-eliminative materialism)
niet: eliminative materialism

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non-eliminative materialism =

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one can deny that the mind exists as a substance, but still makes room for mental states. to do this, one must produce an account of how mental states are rooted in brain states

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what are related attempts to non-eliminative materialism

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identity theory
functionalism

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identity theory=

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  • mental states are brain states
  • ‘to want an ice cream’ = ‘brain state X’
  • john bought ice cream because he wanted one, but it really means that john bought ice cream because he had brain state X
  • identity theory was developed to keep a causal role for mental states, not to deny it!
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dus bij welke lijn hoort identity theory

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non-eliminative materialism

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is er ruimte voor mental states in identity theory

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ja, they are meaningful, but the way to relate them to the brain is by saying that each mental state is identical to some brain states.

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wat is het verschil tussen eliminative materialism en identity theory

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bij identity theory denk je dat beiden gelijk zijn aan elkaar, en je kan dus op verschillende levels praten over hetzelfde. mental states worden dus wel benoemd, maar worden gewoon gezien als hetzelfde als de brain states.

bij eliminative materialism denken ze dat het een soort illusie is, ill defined and we should ignore them.

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wat is een sterkere versie van deze gedachte van identity theory

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type-type identity: types of mental states (e.g. wanting an ice cream) are identical to types of brain states (brain state X) across individuals and time. (als ik en mijn leraar een ice cream hebben, hebben we allemaal dezelfde brain states en dezelfde mental states).

this implies that there is a one-to-one mapping of mental states to brain states, which would make a full reduction of psychology to neuroscience a realistic possibility

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reduction therefore requires…

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type-type identity.

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voorbeeld van type-type identity

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i like ice cream (voor iedereen ongeveer dezelfde brain states) leidt dan tot i am going to buy ice cream (identical brain states for everyone)

hier is ‘i like i cream’ bv dus een mental state

a certain brainstate then always leads to another brain state.

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reductionism:

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  1. start with a scientific law in a higher order science (physics is the lowest level, psych is hogerop)
  2. explain relations on higher level sciences by referring to lower level sciences. establish bridge laws: these map the one-to-one correspondence relations between terms in the higher order science and terms in the lower order science.
  3. the higher order law should follow from the laws of the reducing science, given these bridge laws
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The most famous reduction in
the history of science is ….

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the reduction of the ideal gas laws to statistical mechanics through the bridge law temperature=mean kinetic energy

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er zijn weinig voorbeelden van situaties waarin deze bridge laws ook echt werken

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oke

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in het voorbeeld, wat is higher en wat is lower

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higher order: temperature - pressure
lower order: how fast do particles move - with what force do the particles bump to the wall

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wat is kritiek op identity theory

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mental states are often defined by their content, and that content is very likely to be encoded in many different ways for different people and different times. therefore these brain types cannot really be identified.

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3 voorbeelden van differences in encoding (wat dus bewijs geeft tegen de identity theory):

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  • neural plasticity
  • individual differences
  • even the same brain could encode certain thoughts or feelings differently at different time points
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neural plasticity=

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implies that the same mental functions can be performed in different ways -> als iemand brain damage heeft, dan kan een ander deel van het brein hiervoor corrigeren. dan kan uiteindelijk dus dezelfde mental state worden bereikt, maar echter door compleet andere brainstates. dit klopt dus niet

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individual differences =

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in physical makeup suggest that brains may be quite heterogeneous, especially at the fine grained level of patterns of neural connections

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wat zou je kunnen zeggen bij telecopying

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with telecopying you could say that the destruction of your old body on earth is murder

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nonreductionist materialism=

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maakt gebruik van multiple realizibility: different people can all think about ice cream, but this presents differently in the brain. there is not one common type of brainstate. dit is ook zo voor de mental state ‘i am going to buy ice cream’.

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type-type identity is killed by…

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multiple realizability

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welke identity theory hoort bij reductive materialism, en welke bij nonreductive materialism

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type-type = reductive
token-token = non-reductive

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token-token identity=

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each token of a mental state (a specific mental state of a person at a certain time) is identical to some brain token

dit verschilt dus per persoon: mijn token voor ice cream is niet perse hetzelfde als die van mijn buurman, maar correspondeert wel altijd met een bepaalde brain state X bij mij.

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wat is kritiek op token-token identity

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het is lastig om hier iets mee uit te vinden, want er kan nooit een lawful relationship gevonden worden tussen mental states en brain states, omdat het toch per persoon en per tijdsmoment verschilt.

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wat doet token-token identity met reductionism

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het blokt reductionism: although each mental state is, in the end, produced by brain states, we do still need the higher mental states theories to make lawful relations. we cannot construct the bridge laws, therefore the laws of psychology cannot be reduced to the laws of biology or physics.

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dus waar is reductionism wel mogelijk, en waar niet (van de identity theories)

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type-type = wel mogelijk
token-token = niet mogelijk

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identity theory is an answer to…

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how do we relate mental states to brain states?
because we belief in only material substance. identity theory: lets do that by making them identical to each other
- type-type = reductionism
- token-token = not reductionism

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wat is het lastige aan identity theory

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it may be true, but it is not helpful for us to think of them in brain states, because of multiple realizability.

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what gave rise to functionalism

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  • multiple realizability
  • opkomst van Turing machine
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wat liet de turing machine zien

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maybe we should not look at the mind vs the brain, but more as the mind as a function of the brain

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wat is de mind en wat is de brain in de turing analogie

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mind = software (zoals word)
brain = hardware

-> word =/= hardware, maar word kan ontstaan en goed draaien door de hardware.

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wat is de turing analogy nog een keer

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the mind is a program that runs on the brain -> mental states are characterized by their function, not their realization.

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functionalism defines mental states in terms of their…

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role

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dus fear of spiders is not identical to a type of brain states, but it is realized within the brain.

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oke

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realization versus causation

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not all concepts are best understood by studying their physical makeup!

bv. 10 euro is niet 10 euro omdat het van papier is, maar omdat je er iets van 10 euro van kan maken. het kunnen ook coins zijn of met kaart betalen. het gaat om de rol die geld speelt!

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wat is een logische fout die functionalisten aanwijzen

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als je zegt dat de brain causes the mind -> dan benoem je dus eigenlijk al dat het twee aparte dingen zijn!! dan kunnen het dus niet 2 dezelfde dingen zijn. materialisten zouden echt moeten zeggen dat die twee hetzelfde ding zijn.

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for functionalists, psychological explanations are genuine.

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oke

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functionalism gaat samen met…

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multiple realisability

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even een overzichtje maken van alle stromingen en hun problemen etc (zie PA 5)

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okeeee echt doen he

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wat zegt functionalism over reductionism en identity theory

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reductionism is niet mogelijk. token-token identity is wel mogelijk (maar nogsteeds wel meer helpful om te kijken naar hun functie)

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teleportation test for functionalists

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you survive teleportation, even something similar (2 verschillende computers) kunnen nogsteeds leiden tot dezelfde mental processen (2 verschillende computers hebben word)

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teleportation test for materialists

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you need to have the exact same brain to get the exact same mental states

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most functionalists are …. materialists

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non-reductive

76
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even schemaatje maken van what substance slide in ppt.

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oke

(met monism etc, boomdiagram)

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functionalism is not inconsistent with materialism in general!! het is niet compleet verschillend van materialisme, want nonreductive materialists can be functionists.

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oke

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materialists claim functionism because….

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mental states are realized in physical states. (daarom zeggen ze dat zij het hebben bedacht)

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