Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness.

Frame issues

A final class of questions emerging from this aspect of philosophy concern the validity of the commonsense categories employed. Must it be the case that determinism rules out free will, or is it that one or both of these categories has been poorly defined? Does the rule against multiplication of entities force materialists to exclude higher-order entities such as semantic systems, or have we endowed 'material' with unwarranted properties? Is the term 'natural' meaningful if we deny that it has an opposite? What precisely is an event?

Related Topics:
Multiplication of entities - Semantic

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See also How the Self Controls Its Brain. For a more science-based model of how the mind works, see neural networks, reinforcement learning, complex mind.

Related Topics:
How the Self Controls Its Brain - Neural network - Reinforcement learning - Complex mind

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