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mental event
Also known as: mental events
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Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 6 facts
claimEpiphenomenalism is a theory which posits that mental events are caused by physical events but have no causal influence on the physical world, serving as a way to avoid the problem of how immaterial and material things interact.
claimInteractionism is the view that the mind and body, or mental events and physical events, causally influence each other.
claimThe argument against the bundle theory of the self states that if the bundle theory were true, it should be possible to identify mental events independently of or prior to identifying the person or mind to which they belong; since it is not possible to identify mental events in this way, the bundle theory is false.
claimThe 'argument to the best explanation' for other minds suggests that because mental events explain an individual's own behavior and no other explanation exists for typical human behavior, one can postulate the same mental explanation for the behavior of others.
claimSome philosophers argue that the principle of overdetermination applies only to intrinsic features of events, rather than relational or comparative features, which would leave no room for mental events to cause physical effects under the constraint of physical closure.
quoteMills (1996) states: 'For X to be a cause of Y, X must contribute something to Y. The only way a purely mental event could contribute to a purely physical one would be to contribute some feature not already determined by a purely physical event.'
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
claimFriedrich Beck and John Eccles proposed that the interaction of mental events with quantum probability amplitudes for exocytosis creates a coherent coupling of individual amplitudes across hundreds of thousands of boutons in a dendron, leading to a variety of modes in brain activity.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimHedda Hassel Mørch argues against David Hume that experience reveals a necessary connection between the mental events of feeling pain and trying to avoid pain, using this as a basis for panpsychism.
4.5 Consciousness – Cognitive Psychology nmoer.pressbooks.pub 1 fact
claimThe first-person perspective of a mental event is defined as the experience of sensory input, a memory, an idea, an emotion, a mood, or a continuous temporal sequence of happenings.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 1 fact
quoteDerek Parfit identifies two prominent reductionist claims: first, that 'a person’s existence consists in the existence of a brain and body, and the occurrence of a series of interrelated physical and mental event'; and second, that '[t]hough persons exist, we could give a complete description of reality without claiming that persons exist.'
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimEpistemology shares a close connection with cognitive science, which defines mental events as processes that transform information.