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Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 5 facts
claimThe concept of 'overlap' of numerically identical psychic parts cannot be applied to minds in the same way that it is applied to bodily part constitution.
claimConventionalist methods used to resolve identity problems for physical objects over time cannot be applied to counterfactuals concerning the identity of persons or minds.
perspectiveRené Descartes held a mechanistic view of matter, asserting that bodies function as machines according to their own laws, except when influenced by minds.
claimIrreducible special sciences and their specific predicates depend on the existence of minds and mental states because only minds possess interest-relative perspectives.
perspectiveIt is argued that the concept of 'overlap of constitution,' which can be applied to physical bodies, cannot be applied to the counterfactual identity of minds.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 3 facts
claimIdealists are considered panpsychists by default because they believe that nothing exists except for minds or mental attributes.
quoteIsaac Newton wrote to Henry Oldenburg: “... to determine by what modes or actions light produceth in our minds the phantasm of colour is not so easie.”
claimThales of Miletus (624-545 B.C.E.) argued that magnets and amber possess minds because they are self-movers, an analogical argument that supports panpsychism.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 2 facts
quoteHenry Stapp (2015) describes quantum events as 'not actually random but positively or negatively biased by the positive or negative values in the minds of the observers that are actualized by its (nature’s) choices.'
claimHenry Stapp (2015) proposes a 'semi-orthodox' approach to quantum mechanics where the randomness of individual quantum events is reconceived as being biased by the positive or negative values in the minds of observers.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Apr 8, 2022 2 facts
perspectiveA trend in contemporary anthropological theorizing, as noted by Holbraad and Pedersen (2017), posits that there is no 'real' world existing independently of people's worldviews or cultural formations, suggesting that entities like bodies, minds, spirits, gods, animals, humans, and landscapes are defined entirely by how particular peoples determine their existence.
claimLate 20th-century anthropologists often focused on identifying and describing other minds and worldviews without adjudicating the veracity of their truth-claims.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectiveGeorge Berkeley rejected panpsychism, arguing instead that the physical world exists only within the experiences that minds have of it, while restricting the definition of minds to humans and specific other agents.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
perspectiveDavid Chalmers maintains a realist stance regarding reality, asserting that minds are part of reality, but that reality exists independently of human minds.
Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimGeorge Berkeley, an Anglo-Irish empiricist philosopher, held the view of idealism, which asserts that only minds and their ideas exist, and that sensations are counted as ideas.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimMutually shared knowledge of minds enables organisms to interact, cooperate, and communicate in more advanced and adaptive ways.
What is hard about the “hard problem of consciousness”? philosophy.stackexchange.com Nov 18, 2020 1 fact
perspectiveThe author of the source text argues that claiming the 'hard problem' of consciousness is only a problem for physicalists is a double standard, as anti-materialists have also failed to provide a complete explanation of how minds work.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 1 fact
claimThales, a Presocratic philosopher of ancient Greece (c. 624–545 BCE), argued that magnets and amber possess minds because they are self-movers, which is an early indication of panpsychist doctrine.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 1 fact
referenceVasudevi Reddy authored the book 'How Infants Know Minds', published by Harvard University Press in 2008.