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Individuating minds and agents

D. H. M. Brooks

pp. 143-155

Résumé

The truth condition for "This is one mind" is roughly that this consists in a single realisation of the mind blue-print. The ideal way of establishing its truth would be to investigate the structure of what confronts us and determine whether it realises the mind blue-print. Unfortunately, we are not sufficiently knowledgeable. If we did not know that brains animated the people we see around us, there would be no temptation to suppose that a brain in a vat was a mind. The statement has to be verified indirectly.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Brooks D. H. M. (1994) The unity of the mind. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 143-155

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23178-2_9

Citation complète:

Brooks D. H. M., 1994, Individuating minds and agents. In D. H. Brooks The unity of the mind (143-155). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.