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The Mind/Body Problem

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is the Brain Really What It Is?

I think what's happened with the the debate in general is thata. The key problem is now everybody axcepts that somehow or other, the brain, central nervous system, the physical stuff, is what there is and that mental phenomena somehow arise. We don't really know how it arises. And so when people say, as i did earlier, look im to talk about memory, hope, desire, belief, intentiono use that sort of psychological vocabulary to talk about the mental reality of our lives. This is to use two quite different bits of language that you can't, that can't be interpretd one another. It must be possible to reduce, to translate, the psychological talking

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