The Unity of the MindMind, consciousness and self are distinguished, and in working out criteria for the unity of the mind and explaining synchronic personal identity he puts forward a distinctive philosophy of mind. Real-life cases are considered as well as thought experiments. All these are subject to the realistic constraint that they could occur in a world where everything is supervenient upon some laws of nature. |
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Split Brains Scattered Agents and Group Minds | 11 |
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Humes Bundle Theory of the Mind | 41 |
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accept account of mental action amoeba argue argument ascribe ascription aware behaviour belief system beliefs and desires belong body Brain City bundle Bundle Theory c-fibres causal caused cerebroscope characterised commissurotomy components concept connected consider constraint criterion deceive dependent device different minds distinct eliminative materialist entity existence experience explain external world fact feel function functionalist goal system group mind human Hume Hume's identified identity theorist inputs interact Kant linked m₁ machine model Martians memory mental contents mental unity mind blue-print mind-stage motor vehicle natural world naturally possible neurone normal objects outputs pain particular perceptions person physical possible world principle problem psychological Ramsey sentence rational computer realise scattered agent sciousness seems self-conscious self-deception sensations simply single mind specify split split-brain Strawson stream of consciousness structure supervenience suppose suppressed belief synthesising synthesising mechanisms telepathy theory things thought tion Turing Machine Turing test unified unity of consciousness unity of self-reflexiveness