The Mind-Body Problem
How do we experience the world? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? Can cognitive science explain the subjective nature of human experience? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries - and we'll explore them in this video.
0:00 - Intro
2:41 - The grounding problem
5:39 - The mind-body problem
11:06 - Qualia
13:29 - What it's like to be a bat
15:22 - The subjective-objective divide
17:24 - Functionalism and qualia
19:55 - Mary's Room
23:22 - Wrapping up
25:46 - Key concepts
Sources:
Friedenberg & Silverman (2021). Cognitive Science: An introduction to the study of the mind. Chapter 2. https://books.google.com/books?id=P9d...
Tye (2021). Qualia. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/f...
Nagel (1974). What is it like to be a bat? http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/co...
Jackson (1982). Epiphenomenal qualia. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2960077