The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 131 of 254
Non-reductive physicalism
This way of looking at things – sometimes called non-reductive physicalism – seems to be the only way to reconcile…
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Idealism and materialism as two kinds of monism
The dualists said that there are two kinds of things or properties in the universe, and with the failure of dualism, it is natural to suppose that maybe there…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #materialism #metaphysics #mind
Behaviorism smuggles desire back in
I said earlier that the behaviorists would analyze Jones’s belief that it is going to rain into sets of statements about his rain-avoidance behavior. But the…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #behaviorism #beliefs #reductionism
Causal reduction without ontological reduction
On the dualist’s conception, consciousness is definitely something over and above its material substrate. Indeed the dualist supposes that the irreducibility…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #reductionism #ontology #consciousness #cause
For consciousness, appearance is reality
But why couldn’t we show that consciousness was an illusion like sunsets and thus do an eliminative reduction? Eliminative reductions rest on the distinction…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #illusion #reductionism
Mud, Beethoven and surface features
So consciousness differs from other phenomena such as liquidity and solidity that have surface features, in that we are reluctant to carve off the surface…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #reductionism #consciousness #music
Pain and our definitional practices
there is an asymmetry between colors on the one hand and pains and consciousness on the other, because we would lose the point of having the concepts of…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #reductionism #pain #definition #consciousness