Parallel computation and the mind-body problem
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Parallel Computation and the Mind-Body Problem
The position in the philosaphy of mind colled functfonolfsm claims that mentol states ore to be understood in terms of their functional relotionships to other mental stotes, not in terms of their moteriol instontiotion in any porticulor kind of hordwore. But the orgument thot material instantiation is irrelevant to functional relationships is computotionolly naive. This paper uses recent work o...
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II. The denial of strict psychophysical laws would not undermine the claim that mental events are causally efficacious. § The three premisses from which AM is derived: (1) that mental events are causally related to physical events (2) that singular causal relations are backed by strict laws (3) that there are no strict psycho-physical laws ⇒ AM + P § "supervenience" ___ a predicate p is superve...
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JERRY A. FODOR Jerry A. Fodor is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He is renowned for defending the view that we think in an inner language, akin to the symbolic codes used in ordinary computers. Fodor's highly influential works include The Language of Thought, The Modularity of Mind, and Psychosemantics. Copyright @ 1981 by Scientific American, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1016/s0364-0213(86)80020-9