Exam 4: Mind and Body

__________ complained that __________ started with behavior, either human behavior or computer behavior, and claimed that understanding human consciousness was just a matter of finding the right "program" for that behavior.

The quote below belongs to__________ . "Since brains do produce minds, and since programs by themselves can't produce minds, it follows that the way the brain does it can't be by simply instantiating a computer program."

Functionalism is the view that minds are produced by the relations between parts not particular kinds of material.

Shaffer argues that no amount of research could possibly show that __________ and __________ have the same properties.

Epiphenomenalism does not allow for causal interaction.

__________ is the "immediate" certainty that you feel in the case of your own conscious experience.

Behaviorism __________.

In which sense do identity theorists such as J. J. C. Smart and their critics such as Jerome Shaffer mean that "thought" and "brain process" are or are not, identical? Hint: Is it correct to say that the terms water and H₂O are synonyms, or do water and H₂O have different properties (e.g., water is wet, but an H₂O molecule is not wet) and do not, therefore, have the same meaning?

__________ believed that with our increasing knowledge of neurology, our ordinary language about human behavior would be seriously revised.