The mind-body problem today

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The mind-body problem today
  1. Descartes
    1. The mind and the body are made up of separate things, also known as substance dualism - the brain and the mind interact via the pineal gland
      1. Leibniz proposed a different form of dualism, in which the mind and the body live separately in parallel
    2. Dualisms
      1. Property dualisms
        1. Epi-phenomenalism (Huxley)
          1. Argues the physical brain causes mental states, known as M1 and M2, however, these mental states have no causal role in changing our physical states, known as P1 and P2
            1. We respond to stimuli in a reflex like way as behaviours are caused by muscles contracting upon receiving neural impulses
              1. Neuropsychology supports this view, arguing that reactions and functions don't require a conscious awareness. Behaviourism also supports this view as they made observations of behaviour without referring to the mind
                1. From an evolutionary standpoint they reject this view, proposing that if the mind has no causal role, how has it evolved?
              2. Pan-psychism (Nagel)
                1. He argues that there are mental properties in everything (everything has a mind), and the mind is a non-physical property of all matter. Mentality is fundamental in the natural world. The mind can't be reduced to physical states and the mind doesn't emerge from physical states
                  1. Empirically, this can't yet be tested scientifically.
                2. Emergent/ non-reductive materialism (Chalmers)
                  1. Argues there are causal relationships between the body and mind, and all mental states are caused by a physical state. The mind depends on the body
                    1. Everything is considered to be made of physical substances
                      1. Physical properties can be described at multiple levels, and higher level properties emerge from lower level ones.
              3. Monisms
                1. Identity theory (Place)
                  1. Argued that mental states are identical to physical states. Mental states can be grouped into types and correlated with brain states. Brain and mind states are identical
                    1. For example, pain is a type of mental state
                      1. If brain and mind states are identical, different brain states should produce different mind states. However, this denies that two different brains (organisms/machines) can have the same mind states, ruling out AI. (multiple realisability problem)
                        1. It also doesnt explain qualia - how we feel subjectively to be in different mind states
                        2. Neuroscience supports this theory, showing that many things affect mental and physical states together, for example, chemicals such as alcohol also and brain damage
                        3. Functionalism (Putnam)
                          1. Mental states consist of a set of functional relationships between sensory inputs, other states, and behavioural output. When these functional relationships are preserved, mental states are present (multiple realisation)
                            1. Invention of computers and the Turing machine
                              1. Allows the same mental states to arise in different ways (unlike identity theory)
                              2. People would argue that if everything has mental states, then the whole world could be conscious (Block's China brain argument)
                              3. Eliminative materialism (Churchland)
                                1. Radical claim that our understanding of the mind is completely wrong and that some/all mental states posited by common sense don't actually exist and have no role in the mind
                                  1. Our history of science is full of concepts which have been eliminated e.g. witches -> hysteria. This reduction should also happen with the mind-body problem. However, it can be argued that subjective phenomena can't be explained away.
                              4. Nagel, 1993
                                1. The mind-body problem exists because we want to include the mental life of conscious organisms in a scientific understanding of the world. On one hand, everything that happens in the mind depends on something happening in the brain, or on the other hand, the subjectivity of mental states cannot be explained by physical states.
                                2. Searle, 1993
                                  1. Conscious states are caused by lower level neurobiological processes in the brain

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