Wednesday, November 30, 2016

office hours Thursday 12-3

  • ship of Theseus
  • is it the ship of thesisus if we take out all the parts and replace them  
  • what makes us the same person is that there is a chain of memory 
  • fake memory 
  • in order for there to be a memory it has to be a phenomenal memory 
  • x has a real memory of phi  - x has a phenomenal memory of phing at t 
  • x now has a phenomenal memory of phing at t1 
  • x now phid at t1 and now x is that person 

Monday, November 28, 2016


  • is this a question 
  • yes, if this is an answer 
  • syntax 
  • semantics 
  • think of a language and think of all the sentences that are true of the language 
  • P,Q 
  • a language consist of 2 sentences  
  • 2 T 
  • model- a world in where that language is true of 
  • manipulation of symbols and meaning 

Monday, November 21, 2016


  • can a machine think 
  • can a machine win the imitation game 
  • twinning game 
  • john mccarther - early 1960s 
  • terry wnograd 
  • started a movement of writing computer programs for artificial intelligence 
  • first computer programming - wsp 
  • sail came next 
  • intentionality 
  •  john seule 
  • paul gice 
  • gendonken expirement - thought experiment 

Monday, November 14, 2016

substance dualism


  • since you need the same matter in order to be resurected how is that possible 
  • the same matter is when you die or when you are six years old 
  • behaviorism 
  • dispositional behaviorism 
  • functionalism 
  • the basic laws of how bodies act shouldnt be different from a human to anything else 
  • as barcly says is to be or to be a perciever 
  • my cat and i have conciousness but i dont know what its like to be a cat 
  • mental monism is called idealism 
  • im thinking of rain in berlin its not a property of matter 
  • i am a in a certain brain state 
  • attribute dualism 
  • charles babbages 
  • lady ada lovlay 
  • alan luring 
  • alonzo church 
  • couperalion 
  • theory 
  • lady ada loblis is the first person to write computer programing 
  • within the confines of upper middle class society nobody cared what torin did 
  • to avoid jail he was forced to take estrogen hormones 
  • the sender can ask questions 
  • the questioner can ask any question 
  • the players are trying to convince the guy he is the real one 
  • we can see that in such a game a lot of things can happen 
  • the man or the woman can be chosen 
  • both are intellegent enough to help convince that he or she is the woman 

Wednesday, November 9, 2016


  • harry
  • jackson reports churchlin
  • by leibnez law is if a is identical to b then everything that is true of a is true of b 
  • knowledge that 
  • knowledge by aquantaince 
  • i know christina is in the class but i dont know who she is 
  • saber in spanish 
  • savoir in french 
  • conocer in spanish 
  • comutre in french 
  • mary knows everything that there is to know about brain states 
  • precieving is such and such a state of the brain 
  • mary is acquainted with chrchlin and their properties 
  • know that 
  • know how having a kind of ability 
  • the physical account doesnt include qualia 
  • the experiencing of qualia 
  • percepts 
  • sense data 
  • J.L Austin 

Monday, November 7, 2016


  • the churhlins position is that it might be the case that our mental 
  • death 
  • certain discoveries make us think of things differently symmantically 
  • semantic decisions arent about discoveries its about making coherent about making new facts 
  • saying the wall is brown is merely an indication that the wall is brown  
  • x sees the red tomato 
  • does he learn something now what it's like to see red 
  • bleach/white world 
  • Tully is cicero 
  • christina knows that tully as an orator 

Wednesday, November 2, 2016


  • identity theory ( 2 types ) 
  • type - type 
  • token - token 
  • 1-to1
  • a 1 to 1 correspondence in which each member for one set has a corresponding member for the other member 
  • sean has the same belief but his brain state may be different from my brain state 
  • physicalism
  • there is a difference between the type- type state  and the token-token state: jerry foder 
  • gresham's law 
  • if there is a lot of conterfit money there is less confidence in the money 
  • physical account book
  • if you ask is there a physical kind called money
  • with money there is only a token-token
  • decartes- the mind is a thing that is thinking 
  • i am thinking about paris 
  • folk psychology is fundamentally wrong 
  • you is second person
  • I has a unity of mind and body 
  • does conciousness make a difference