Exam 10: How Is Your Mind Related to Your Body?

According to verificationists, claims about the mental states of other people are verified by

Descartes believed that

The metaphysical theory that claims that minds and matter are fundamentally different kinds of things is often called

__________ vividly illustrated the difficulty of determining whether other people's mental states are similar to yours through an "inverted spectrum" thought experiment. In this experiment, what other people experience when looking at a Red Delicious apple, inverted spectrum people experience when looking at blueberries.

__________ noted that the current adult population of China is now roughly the same as the number of neurons in a human brain. He then suggested that, according to functionalism, it should be possible to build an analog of a human brain using one Chinese person to play the role of each neuron, whereby this elaborate system of a billion Chinese people would feel pain.

Of the following objections, which has/have been raised against the mind-brain identity theory?

Mind-brain identity theorists answer the question posed by the problem of other minds (i.e., do other people have mental states?) by which of the following claims?

Descartes believed that minds exist in

For mind-brain identity theorists, the question "Which brain states are identical with which mental states" can only be answered by

Summarize Ned Block's famous objection to functionalism. How might a functionalist respond?

For verificationists, a sentence can be literally meaningful

Which of the following is/are the central question(s) of the mind-body problem?

According to the philosophical behaviorists, if something behaves like a normal human under a wide variety of conditions, then we

Explain Cartesian dualism and Princess Elisabeth's objection to it.

Which aspect(s)of Cartesian dualism, from among the following, make(s) the problem of other minds exceedingly difficult to solve?

Descartes believed that the

The mind-brain identity theory has been said to be "chauvinistic." Explain what this means and how analytic functionalism attempts to avoid such criticism.

Which question(s) in philosophy of mind, from among the following, is/are epistemological?

__________ challenges behaviorism by asking you to imagine that you need an operation and an anesthesiologist offers you a choice of two drugs: a traditional one that induces a coma-like state where the patient is completely unconscious and a new product that merely leads to temporary paralysis.

Eliminativists think that common-sense mental states, including beliefs, desires, and pains, are