Is Consciousness a Brain Process? (Czy świadomość jest procesem mózgowym?)

Wprowadzenie

Ullin T. Place, a British psychologist and philosopher who taught at the University of Adelaide, published the paper in the British Journal of Psychology in 1956. He accepts a behavioural analysis, in the spirit of Ryle, for concepts such as knowing and believing, but argues that consciousness, sensation and mental imagery require reference to an inner process. The “is” in “consciousness is a brain process” is the “is” of composition, as in “lightning is a motion of electric charges”, not the “is” of definition. He also identifies a “phenomenological fallacy”: the mistake of supposing that in describing our experiences we describe properties of objects on an inner screen. The paper is regarded as the first statement of the mind–brain identity theory.

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Odpowiada na

• The Concept of Mind (Pojęcie umysłu)1949 · Gilbert Ryle

Podjęte w

• Sensations and Brain Processes (Wrażenia i procesy mózgowe)1959 · J.J.C. Smart