PHIL 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Noun, Transparency And Translucency, Spasm
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Human being: conscious, experiencing subject, possessing a variety of mental states. Other living creatures have mental lives, though underdeveloped and rudimentary, many of their minds are. Talking about the mind, describes the sorts of states, or events that make it up. These states comprise the stuff of your experience, and mental life, without which you, would not exist as a person. We have a better grasp of physical occurrences taking place, rather than mental events. Also have an understanding of what further kinds of detail that need to be discovered and how to do so (physical occurrences) Experiences provide no insight regarding the nature of what takes place within us when we think or when a part of our body is injured. This leads to, and constitutes the mind/body problem. Philosophers call this, the ontological question about the status of the mind. What is the nature of the possessor of mental states whose mental states comprise mental.
