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Embodiment of the mind within the body
Leads to spinoza talk next time
Descartes thought the soul as occuring prior to the brain state and bodily actions
Phantom limbs
Extend to "Phantom body"
A behaviourist would say that all the behaviour can occur without the existence of the qualia at all
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Spinoza: #Divinised nature or #Naturalised god
Was #Neizche a #nihilist ?
Was #Spinoza a #pantheist ?
#Spinoza and #Neitzche
#Spinoza - book!
#Creativity of nature
#Adequate ideas - ones that capture enough of the truth of something to be adequate
"Anglicans can believe in anything they want to, but of course none of them do." Alan Bennett
Spinoza vs. Neizche
Spinoza vs Descartes
Catholic Church accepted Descartes as the successor to Aristotelianism
#Spinoza rationalist and un-compromising naturalist
#Descartes was sufficiently compromising naturalist for the Catholic Church to be able to accept his philosophy
Descartes idea of the ghost ... infused into the body... the ghost is embodied
Analogy with captain of a ship... like a little man inside your head giving orders
Direct immediate access to the world vs mediated access
Only access the ghost has to the world is via the machine
This leads to scepticism Berkeley etc.
Having convinced A level students of the sceptical argument, the job becomes to disabuse people of it.
Res cogitans - the thing that thinks - the body cannot think
#Free #will - we have it, cats and machines don't have it
If we are just machines... How can we have freedom of will
Perhaps the ghost is not binary either or... perhaps we can have part-ghost... children not as much as adults ... chimps even less ?
How can you test freedom of the will ?
You feel you have free will - you have an intuition.
What impacts the drift ?
#Compatibilism
Idea of #personal #identity
David #Chambers - the explanatory gap - how is it that mental states are brain states?
The hard problem is to bridge the gap
The hard problem
The easy problem is to see how it may be possible to map onee onto the other
Neurophysiology =? Phenomenal experience
Ontologically subjective =? Ontologically objective
1st person private experience =? 3rd person public data
How to get rid of the gap? Get rid of one of the sides.
Eliminative reductive materialms
Dark star - teach the bomb phenomenology
Phenomenology
Spinoza's solution
Neurobiology #IS phenomenolgy
Two #aspects of the same substances
Two #attributes of same substance
It just #IS
Just accept it
Gives spinoza a special handle on what is going on
Solves the Free Will question?
2 attributes : spinoza thinks infinity of attributes of which we can perceive two
The human mind is the body's perception of itself.
The elements of the human mind must also be in animals otherwise it couldn't have evolved.
At a deeper level they are the same thing
Extreme sceptic - assume the objective reality of the brain in denying the objective reality of the world