Is it a fair restatement to note that people (physicalists included) get quite different priming effects from ‘mind’ and ‘brain’? The first makes us think of our subjective experience, the second makes us think of a physical object.
I’ve certainly noticed that reductionist arguments are more convincing to others when I use ‘brain’ in place of ‘mind’.
Plenty of people who are ostensibly physicalists still seem to alieve that there is something spooky going on in the mind. They seem comfortable with the idea that physical-chemical-biological processes underlie the mind, without being ready to deal with the consequence that these processes constitute the mind.
Is it a fair restatement to note that people (physicalists included) get quite different priming effects from ‘mind’ and ‘brain’? The first makes us think of our subjective experience, the second makes us think of a physical object.
I’ve certainly noticed that reductionist arguments are more convincing to others when I use ‘brain’ in place of ‘mind’.
Plenty of people who are ostensibly physicalists still seem to alieve that there is something spooky going on in the mind. They seem comfortable with the idea that physical-chemical-biological processes underlie the mind, without being ready to deal with the consequence that these processes constitute the mind.