• Identity Thesis 
• mental states are just physical states 
• the identity thesis only gets meaning in contrast to dual behaviorism 
• belief states are a kind of physical state 
• Functionalism 
• Dual Behaviorism 
• menal state 
• physical state 
•  mental states 
• "mary belives the election is Tuesdays means something about belief behavior
• token types 
• for ever mental type there is a physical type 
• minimal identity thesis 
• the richer thing comes in functionalism 
• functionalism is to deal with the problems of behaviorism 
• let's suppose you have a kind of machine 
• your computers are functionally understood 
• you treat your computer behavioristically 
•  there is a black box with outputs and inputs 
• what we think is going on is that there is a database to see if the word is used in that way 
• or uses a variation that could be that word using an algorithm 
• what Aristotle says is that one of the marks of sensation are the sense that we are sensing or that we perceive that we are perceiving 
• what armstrong does is he picks this up 
• my driving is happening whether i am aware of it or not 
• the driver in a state of automisim is aware of the road or he would be in a ditch 
• i concieve of conciousnes as kant talks about an inner sense 
• each of us has the power to percieve our own minds 
• the conclusion is there are unner states in purly physical states