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JonathanLivengood comments on HP:MOR and the Radio Fallacy - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: RichardChappell 21 July 2012 07:55PM

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Comment author: JonathanLivengood 22 July 2012 10:49:03PM 0 points [-]

Are you agreeing, then, that X=mind and Y=brain chunks? That's surprising to me. I would have thought that X was all of the relevant behaviors -- walking, talking, breathing, playing games, writing on internet forums, ... I didn't think you would want an identity thesis between Mind and Some Class of Behaviors. Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but I thought for soul-ish theories, the mind just was the soul. And then you get a causal picture (for interactionists, anyway) that looks like Soul --> Brain --> Intelligent Behaviors.