Some questions for you to post about:
1. What is a mind?
2. What, in particular, are philosophers talking about when they refer to ‘consciousness’?
3. What is the relationship between your conscious thoughts and feelings and what goes on physically in your brain? Might pain be a brain process?
4. If your conscious mind is essentially non-physical, how does it causally interact with your physical body?
5. Can science ever explain consciousness? Might consciousness be something that it is in principle impossible for science ever to explain?
6. If the mind is essentially physical, how is it physically embodied? What form of materialism should we embrace?
Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
6 days ago
1. What is a mind?
ReplyDelete-Refers to those aspects of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes.
2. What, in particular, are philosophers talking about when they refer to ‘consciousness’?
-Subjective experience or awareness or wakefulness or the executive control system of the mind. It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena. Although humans realize what everyday experiences are, consciousness refuses to be defined, philosophers note.