Philosophy Of Mind

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12 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Philosophy Of Mind.

• Apprehension (understanding) — The mental act of becoming aware of or conceiving an object without yet affirming or denying anything about it.
• Causal closure — A metaphysical thesis that every physical event with a cause sufficient for its occurrence has a sufficient physical cause within the physical domain.
• Emergent materialism — A philosophy-of-mind position holding that mental properties depend entirely on material systems yet arise as novel, irreducible higher-level properties with autonomous explanatory laws.
• Epiphenomenalism — The philosophy-of-mind view that physical processes cause mental events while mental events exert no causal influence on physical events.
• Hard problem of consciousness — The philosophical problem of explaining why and how physical or functional processing is accompanied by subjective phenomenal experience.
• Heterophenomenology — Treat a person's reports of conscious experience as sincere evidence about how things seem while constructing a revisable third-person account that neither grants those reports incorrigible authority nor dismisses their intentional content.
• Language of thought hypothesis — The hypothesis that cognition operates over an internal language-like system of compositional mental representations with combinatorial syntax and semantics.
• Neutral monism — Hold that ultimate reality has one fundamental kind whose intrinsic nature is neither mental nor physical, while mental and physical phenomena are derivative organizations or aspects of that neutral basis.
• Phenomenal concept strategy — A physicalist response to consciousness arguments that locates the apparent explanatory gap in special concepts used to think about experience rather than in an ontological gap.
• Propositional attitude — A belief-like, desire-like, or intention-like mental stance that an agent bears toward propositionally structured content.
• Psychophysical parallelism — A philosophy-of-mind position holding that mental and bodily event streams correspond systematically without directly causing one another.
• User illusion — The metaphor that conscious experience is a simplified action-oriented interface generated from hidden processing rather than a transparent display of objective reality.