Mind-Object Identity: A Solution to the Hard Problem

Here I present a mind-object identity theory based on a straightforward hypothesis: One's experience of an object is identical with the object itself. To defend this hypothesis, I will reconsider the notion of a physical object in terms of relative and actual properties. To address cases of mis...

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Autor principal: Manzotti, Riccardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
Materias:
Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6376247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30800080
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00063
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description Here I present a mind-object identity theory based on a straightforward hypothesis: One's experience of an object is identical with the object itself. To defend this hypothesis, I will reconsider the notion of a physical object in terms of relative and actual properties. To address cases of misperception such as dreams and hallucinations, I will also reconsider the notion of present in relative terms. Both the object and the present are recast as object-relative.
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spelling pubmed-63762472019-02-22 Mind-Object Identity: A Solution to the Hard Problem Manzotti, Riccardo Front Psychol Psychology Here I present a mind-object identity theory based on a straightforward hypothesis: One's experience of an object is identical with the object itself. To defend this hypothesis, I will reconsider the notion of a physical object in terms of relative and actual properties. To address cases of misperception such as dreams and hallucinations, I will also reconsider the notion of present in relative terms. Both the object and the present are recast as object-relative. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6376247/ /pubmed/30800080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00063 Text en Copyright © 2019 Manzotti. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6376247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30800080
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