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Cards in this set: Term Define Logical Behaviorism Definition Mental states are identical to complex behavioral states Term Define the Dispositional property Definition People respond to whatever situation the may be in...being in pain; people would complain and try and take pain killers Term Name the two key problems for the dispositional property Definition 1. You can fake being in pain 2. You could be in pain but not show it Term Non reductive materialism involves... Definition Brain state supervenes on mental states but the mental cannot do the same. The mental and brain states are not separate entities but cannot be entirely reduced Term Reductive materialism can be defined as... Definition The view that mental states exist only so far as they can be reduced to brain states Term The identity theory is related to what viewpoint and what does it mean? Definition It is related to reductive materialism and is the theory that mental states and brain states are numerically identical Term Type identity theory/instance identity theory Definition type of mental state = type of brain state / instance of mental state = instance of brain state Term explain Martian pain objection to the identity theory and functionalism Definition If our pain is equivalent to C fibers firing, then that should be the fact for any creature in pain. The Martian feels pain but does not have any c fibers. A=B and A=C but B does not equal C Term Physicalism is the view that... Definition only physical objects exist Term Functionalism is... Definition The view that mental states are identical with functionalism; in humans these are brain states but may be different in other beings Term Functional states are... Definition an internal causal state that can be specified in terms of cause and effect relations to behavioral states Term The Chinese room argument is written by _________ as an argument against ____________. It involves... Definition John Searle, functionalism. A man in room who speaks no chinese but is handed notes in chinese, where he refers to a manual which describes the proper response. Searle contends that if functionalism were true the man would understand chinese by going through these syntactic processes. This of course is not the case. Term Lycan was a... Definition functionalist Term differences between weak and strong AI theory Definition Weak AI can only simulate human behavior that can be described algorithmically. Strong AI supposes machines are capable of conscious thought Term What is an objection to Strong AI theory? Definition Absent qualia; John Searle Term Lycan's Machine Consciousness Definition Since mental states are functional states it is in principle possible for a machine to be conscious and morally responsible. Term Lycan's supporting thought experiments to machine consciousness Definition the case of henrietta - human slowly turned into a robot through replacement of body parts Henry - android but with human like functions Term What are some objections to Lycan's machine consciousness Definition 1. Free will objection 2. the qualia objection Term What are phenomenal states? Definition mental state described in terms of what it feels like Term Nagel's Thesis... Definition No current form of reductive materialism is plausible because they ignore (or cant account for) the subjectivity of consciousness Term The Nagel Mentality can be defined as Definition A being has mental states (manifests consciousness) if and only if there is something that it is "like" to be that being Term Nagel's Bat Argument is an objection to... Definition reductive materialism. There is something like to be a bat; reductive materialism cannot account for it, so it is not plausible Term Who wrote the "what Mary didnt know" argument against physicalism Definition Frank Jackson... Mary knows everything about the physical world, including color but does not see color in the room she is kept in. According to physicalism if she were to be exposed to color she wouldn't learn anything. We can assume she would though Term Define Leibniz's Law Definition Necessarily if A=B than for any property F if A is F than B must be F Term What properties do identicals share Definition intrinsic Term Difference between Diachronic and Synchronic identity Definition Diachronic: Properties that separate individuals from rest of the world, at two different times Synchronic: properties that individuate at the same time Term Endurance involves... Definition 3D objects enduring through time, undergoing change Term Perdurance involves Definition 4D temporal slice aggregates of people. We are just long worm like beings extended through time. Term Supervenence is most related to.. Definition property dualism and or non reductive materialism Term Mereological Essentialism involves... Definition All composite objects have their parts necessarily Term Theseus' Ships involves Definition replacing of parts until you have two ships...which one is Theseus'? involves mereological essentialism Term Locke's View of Personal Identity Definition The thing that makes us the same person from day to day is our consciousness. Term Psychological v Bodily continuity can best be described as... Definition We are the same person from now till the next day if we are psychologically or bodily continuous from one day to the next.