Mind, Body and Behaviour

What is the mind-body problem?

• Understanding the relationship between mental and physical properties

• A philosophical problem

• How the mind controls the body

• How the body controls the mind

Which of the following is not a question raised by the philosophy of mind?

• Do physical states affect mental states or do mental states affect physical?

• What is consciousness and how does it relate to the mind and body?

• Can computers outperform the human mind?

• What is the self? And how does it related to the mind/body?

Mental experiences are immaterial and don’t exist is in space whereas, materials substances don’t have experiences. The material and immaterial are two distinct entities.

What type of dualism does this most closely relate too?

• Property dualism

• Substance dualism

• Predicate dualism

• None of the above

Epiphenomenalism is the idea that:

• physical events cause mental events

• mental and physical event interact

• both mental and physical events run in parellel

• mental events cause physical events

Liebniz believed that there was pre-existing harmony set up by god within the universe that meant both the physical and mental could run simultaneously to each other without having to interact. This idea is known as:

• Property dualism

• Parallelism

• Interactionism

• Epiphenomenalism

Problems of intentionality and qualia both challenge which schools of thought?

• Physicalism

• Dualism

• Identity Theory of Mind

• Anomalous Monism

Select which of the following is NOT a basic principle of Anomalous Monism:

• There are no strict laws that for mental events can relate, explain, predict other events

• At least some mental events causally interact with at least some physical events

• Events related by causes must follow strict laws

• Physical and mental events operate by their own strict laws independently of each other

Strong AI is the position that:

• computer can understand natural language and can demonstrate other cognitive abilities similar to humans.

• computers are useful as they simulate humans abilities but they do not claim that computers understand or are intelligent.

• Computers will one day rule the world (101010101)

• Computers are only as intelligent as they are programmed

The chinese room argument is used to support the idea that:

• computers are much faster at processing information than humans

• computers are able to do some task much better than humans

• computer may appear to understand but they do not have a real understanding of meaning

• computers can never replicate human ideas or theories but can process large amounts of data by following preset algorithms

The zombie argument challenges functionalist thinking by:

• arguing that it is possible to have functionality without mental states

• arguing that zombies are real

• arguing that mental states have to exist in order to have functional properties

• none of the above