What is mind and body dualism?

Mind and body are separate entities.

What is the definition of physicalism?

The mind is identical to the brain

How does brain research reinforce physicalism?

By a correlation between brain states and mental states

What did Alan Turing say about computer?

Computers can be as intelligent as people

What is eliminativism?

Type of physicalism that denies a separate, nonphysical mind

What does it say the argument Descartes took from consciousness to defend dualism?

My mind is a thinking thing, my body is not.

Where did Descartes think the interaction between mind and body take place?

The pineal gland is where this interaction take place

According to John Searl, How are people's behaviour different from computers'?

People have intentions, computers follow source codes

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What is mind and body dualism?
The mind it can be reduced to brain
Mind and body (brain) are the same entity.
Mind and body are separate entities.
The brain and the mind work like a computer.
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What is the definition of physicalism?
The brain is a non-physical thing
The mind is identical to the brain
The mind and the brain are separate entities.
The mind is a function of the brain.
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Who was founding father of modern computer science?
Alan Turing
John Searl
René Descartes
Jaques Fodor
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How does brain research reinforce physicalism?
By saying that mental states are nonphysical thing
By a correlation between brain states and brain accidents
By a correlation between brain states and mental states
By saying that brain states are part of our physical world
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What did Alan Turing say about computer?
Computers can be as intelligent as people
Computers are more intelligent than people
Computers can lie
Computers are intelligent, but not like a person
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What is eliminativism?
Type of physicalism that denies a separate, nonphysical mind
Type of dualism that says: mind is a function of the brain
Type of dualism tat says: mind and brain interact.
Position that denies that we have thoughts whatsoever
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What position claims that mental events have the property of multiple realizability?
Dualism
Functionalism
Artificial intelligence
Physicalism
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What does it say the argument Descartes took from consciousness to defend dualism?
My body can be divided, my mind cannot
My mind is a thinking thing, my body is not.
I can doubt my body exists, I cannot doubt my mind exists.
Mind and body have different properties.
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Where did Descartes think the interaction between mind and body take place?
The salivary gland is where this interaction take place
The lungs are where this interaction take place
The brain is where this interaction take place
The pineal gland is where this interaction take place
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According to John Searl, How are people's behaviour different from computers'?
People think, computers dont' think
People follow rules, computers don't have rules
People have intentions, computers follow source codes
People sleep, computers don't sleep

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