Is my mind my brain? 6: Functionalism and eliminativism
- Created by: Philosophy Emma
- Created on: 02-10-19 15:53
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2. Functionalism:
- our everyday theory about minds and mental philosophy
- what makes a mental state the state that it is, is the functional role it plays
- the position that something doesn’t exist and reference to it should be eliminated
- each type of mental state is realised by many different types of brain states
3. There are three competing views on how we should work out what the function of a mental state is; which one of these is NOT one of them?
- Analytic
- The inputs and outputs
- Machine-state
- Empirical
4. Folk psychology:
- a functional duplicate of a human person but who has no mental qualities
- our everyday theory about minds and mental philosophy
- the position that something doesn’t exist and reference to it should be eliminated
- each type of mental state is realised by many different types of brain states
5. Token identity theory:
- each type of mental state is realised by many different types of brain states
- every token of a mental state is identical with some token physical state
- every type of mental state is identical with some type of physical state
- what makes a mental state the state that it is, is the functional role it plays
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