(September 2, 2021 at 9:49 am)Angrboda Wrote: All roads lead to the environment. The ultimate source of any brain state lies outside ourselves. Being charitable, you seem to be saying that an experience is authentic if the cause is a proximal state of the brain. I'm not sure where that leads, but it leads to a sliding scale rather than a binary property...
Two roads can indeed lead to the same destination, so I see your point. Every brain state is proceeded in time by some physical causal chain. My contention is that the ultimate significance of a brain state also lies outside ourselves. A true theory of mind cannot dispense with the very things such a theory is called upon to explain, such as intentionality.
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