The Basic ideas in Philosophy of mind (By: Dabo Euclid Ammel)

Introduction. The subject matter of philosophy of mind is the mind-body problem other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness, and the nature of particular mental states.: the problem of reconciling man’s understandings of the causal structure of the physically described world, including our bodies and brains, with the apparent capacity of our conscious thoughts and efforts to cause our bodies to move in consciously intended ways. Due to a faulty understanding and application of a relevant part of contemporary science, philosophers of mind have encountered many difficulties in analyzing man, and this many call the quantum mechanics. Philosophy of mind is a vast field, so to make my task manageable I shall limit my remarks to the opinions and arguments presented in two recent books, John Searle’s Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power, and Physicalism, or Something near Enough. This naturally created causal link e...