Week 4: Miscellaneous Philosophical Investigations

In Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 110–142 (2010)
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Week 4 ‐ miscellaneous philosophical investigations   Day 22 (a.m.), Molyneux's problem ‐ recognising colours, posed   Mary's room, an experiment ‐ by BBC, into a three‐part documentary series, Brainspotting   Mary's subjective sensation of ‘redness’ ‐ different from her recognition of grey tomatoes on the old TV   Einstein, and relativity of perception ‐ ‘physical concepts are free creations of human mind, … determined by the external world’   investigation in human psychology ‐ ‘narrowness’ of perception   cascade theory, ‘three lines’ ‐ a cheap trick that may not even work!   appeal to orthodoxy, of what Charles Mackay ‐ calls ‘the Madness of Crowds’   investigating un‐reason and argument ‐ playing on ambiguity, confusing opponents   power of subliminal messages ‐ being great, sneakiness bad, with consumers rebelling

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