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Ghost in the Machine (Functionalism (A form of property dualism -…
Ghost in the Machine
Functionalism
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Mental life can be explained in terms of higher-level functions: Info processing occurs at a high level of abstraction that doesn't depend on physicality of a system
Cognitive - investigating the structure of the mind by doing experiments on behaviour - answer to behaviourism
The 'hardware's a monkey (brain) is NOT set up to run something like speech (software) - constructed differently for different environments
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Neurophilosphy
Seeks to explain the mind in terms of observable evidence from the physical world - obtained through scientific methods
In theory, if you know everything about the brain, you would understand consciousness
Reductionism
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Rotating Discs Illusion - Your subjective experience is telling you the discs are rotating but your consciousness knows they are not
Everyones subjective experience is wrong in the same way
'Folk' Theory
Our common sense understanding of reality is often misguided - even our sense of a unified self is flawed
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The Human Brain
100 billion neurones - each forming 5000 - 200,000 connections
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The Mind-Brain Problem
Diverse schools of thought - Dualism, materialism, functionalism, behaviouralism, reductionism
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Ghost in the Machine
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Materialism
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Materialism: The only thing that can exist is 'matter' - all things are composed of matter (no evidence that non-matierialist things exist)
Therefore, the mind must be a property of matter (the brain)
Against functionlism
Argues that consciousness can be implemented into any computer - emulate brain behaviour in a machine but they can never possess consciousness
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