Notes 11/14

Nirvana- state of desireless bliss
Personhood; an essential part is good
desireless activity
-requires desire

Functionalism- a mind is a function of a
substance
Can be any substance
-brain
-spiritual subsatnce
-computer

A mind is anything that can perform certain
types of complex opperations

AI= artificial intelligence
Could an artificial intelligence have qualia

Like the translator a computer doesn’t
understand what it’s doing?

Hume said that the self is a bundle of
perceptions