| Philosophy of Mind | |||||
| Introduction | Dualism | Behaviourism | Identity Theory | Functionalism | Dennett |
| Identity Theory: |
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| Identity Theory and Dualism | ||
| Some Problems: | ||
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Reading My Brain | |
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Type-Type | |
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Type-Token and Token-Token | |
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Multiple Realisability | |
| Summary | ||
| Further Reading | ||
| Simplifying the picture | |
| Identity
theory attempts to simplify this picture by doing away with the individual
self as the subject of experience and the idea or mental picture as
a separate mental entity. As such, we are left with 3 components:
1. The object (the car) From
this point of view, neural activity in the brain is the same as
mental activity. |