PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Hans Driesch, Lightning, Realizability
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Lecture 20: the philosophy of mind cont"d (2) Solve this riddle: http://www. utsc. utoronto. ca/~seager/surprise. pdf the prof can"t give you a surprise quiz; if it were friday, you would know thurs. night that the quiz would be the next day. But in real life, we can be surprised by this statement despite the reasoning. A posteriori, not a priori b/c it"s a purely philosophical argument (unlike dualism/behaviourism) It asserts that science has/will show that the best explanation of the nature of the mind is that mind is identical to a (working) brain. Mind =/= the brain because in death, mind disappears but brain doesn"t. There once seemed a huge gap between simple "dead" matter and living beings: nehemia grew (1701): and although we add the auditory nerves to the. Ear, the brain to the nervesyet iti is still but adding body to. Bodywhich, howsoever curious, and many; can never bring life out of themselves, nr make one another to be vital.
