Let’s start with what we all know … right?
“#IThinkThereforeIAm” #ReneDescartes’ “#firstpersonperspective”. The implications of which may not be as straight forward and obvious as you might think.
There is #Idealism, only mind exists and matter is an illusion!
Or maybe mind sits apart from matter, but partially controls is. This is #Descartes; and the followers of this are called “#CartesianDualists” (Catchy)
Another approach, said, that is too subjective, and you need #intersubjectiveverifiability as a scientific #thirdpersonperspective. That my friend is #LogicalPositivism …
And led to #Behaviourism which roughly says the only thing you can discuss is outward behaviour and say nothing of any #innerworld.
Could there be a middle way? Crudely put, mental events exist and occur within the #Brain … along comes #TheIdenityTheory
However, going beyond this was comparing these #mentalstates to the #functional or #logical states in an electric #digitalcomputer.
This was #MachineFunctionalism
In parallel to this #PsychologicalBehaviourism gave way to #CognitivePsychology which holds that behaviour is explained by inner states; which have a physical basis; and that human and other psychology can be understood as information-processing.
Which in turn led to the field of #ArtificialIntelligence and #ComputationalModelsofTheMind
So, far so good.
But, there are problems with this view … #Qualia the #introspectiveFeeing of things such as the experience of a beautiful azure sky; and #Intentionality or #PropositionalAttitudes such as the #belief #that the #icecream will #melt on this beautiful sunny day. Beliefs may be false, and objects may not exist. More on all of this soon, in this thread #JabeOnAI.
Suffice to say, all of the above schools of thought are their own #Ontologies in the #philosophical sense of the work. #Confused? You will be. Or is this just all #Semantics 😉
Or to quote the 1980s rock band #Pixies #WhereIsMyMind ?
