Philosophy of mind facts for kids

Philosophy of mind is thinking about how the mind works and goes about in a relationship with everything else in the world. It also concerns consciousness which is researched in psychology and physics, as well.
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Portrait of René Descartes by Frans Hals (1648)
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The classic Identity theory and Anomalous Monism in contrast. For the Identity theory, every token instantiation of a single mental type corresponds (as indicated by the arrows) to a physical token of a single physical type. For anomalous monism, the token–token correspondences can fall outside of the type–type correspondences. The result is token identity.
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John Searle—one of the most influential philosophers of mind, proponent of biological naturalism (Berkeley 2002)
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Since the 1980s, sophisticated neuroimaging procedures, such as fMRI (above), have furnished increasing knowledge about the workings of the human brain, shedding light on ancient philosophical problems.
