PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Multiple Realizability
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The scientific methods says that we should prefer simpler theories over more complex ones when both are consistent with the observations. Chauvinistic is feeling or displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism. Functional types: types of things whose identity depends on a functional description (what they do); can be built or realized in many different ways from many different materials. Example: light bulb: try to explain the type-token distinction. Type-token distinction is a distinction that separates a concept from the objects which are particular instances of the concept. For example, the sentence the bicycle is in the garage" refers to a token of the type of thing known as the bicycle", while the sentence. The problem of consciousness: knowing what is like to see red seems to be independent of knowledge of the brain. Agents are not responsible for actions that are caused by factors outside of their control.
