Oct-17-2002

Announcements: Go over the study guide, testing closed Friday

Mind Brain identity theory

Mind is the brain.
The mind is a way of talking about the brain.
"I am hungry"
To describe how someone is feeling, you could say
Their neurons are firing in a c54049 configuration.
Advantages of this theory are...
It is quantified
Less chance of cultural influence.

Descartes might try to argue this by saying "What is the brain state for the concept of justice?"

Evolution, anaximander ---- used scientific method to relate humans to animals.
Atoms Democraties --- thought of the concept of things being made of lots of tiny other things
Both of these guys lived in the 4th century