PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Molecular Machine, Olfactory Bulb, Dualism
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Minds and bodies: the mind body distinction: 2 arguments, interactionist dualism: descartes, materialism, epiphenomenalism, mind body distinction. Key point: the essence of mental states is that they have a certain quality. If you feel like you"re in pain, no one can look at your brain and see that they can"t find pain in your brain therefore you don"t have any pain. It can"t be captured of the details of the brain state: their essence is to be experienced, but you can only see the physical manifestation of these things in the brain. Dualism: body and mind are two different kinds of things (substances). I can never conceive of myself as not thinking. I can conceive of myself without a body: ex. The code, if you are just made of code and someone else"s avatar who is simply just not aware that they are code: what i can conceive of as stripped from me is not part of my essence.
