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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
369: The Brain and The Mystery of Consciousness
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According to John Searle in his book "The Mystery of Consciousness" (1997), it seems that the greatest single philosophical obsta...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
351: The Behaviorist's Brain
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What are mental states? When we ask that question we immediately discover that language by its structure forces us in certain directions. I...
350: The Brain from different perspectives
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Let us assume, that we use language to describe the world around us. This sounds simple, but when we turn to the philosophy of mind, we imme...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Lecture 345: Property dualism
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We will consider another form of Dualism - property dualism . Whereas substance dualism claims that there are two fundamentally different k...
Friday, September 9, 2011
343: A special approach of Cartesianism
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In my research I came across something that was completely new to me. An attack on the principle, on which Descartes based his argument: the...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
335: The materialist Brain 3
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To be called a materialist with respect to your metaphysical interpretation of reality has been like a curse for many centuries. Of course t...
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