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Folk psychology?
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Our everyday, common-sense way of explaining people using beliefs, desires and feelings.
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Eliminative materialism (Churchland)?
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The view that our everyday mind-talk is a flawed old theory mature brain science may replace.
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Churchland's analogy?
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'Beliefs' and 'feelings' may go the way of 'evil spirits' — replaced by better science (germs).
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Chalmers: easy vs hard problems?
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Easy = how the brain sorts info, attends, wakes up. Hard = why any of it FEELS like something.
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The hard problem of consciousness?
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Explaining WHY there is any inner feel at all, rather than the brain just processing in the dark.
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Why is the hard problem 'hard'?
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A perfect brain map gives WHAT happens, never WHY it feels like anything — the feel is left out.
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Churchland vs Chalmers?
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Churchland: science will explain/replace the feel. Chalmers: the feel is a new kind of problem no brain map dissolves.
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What lifts a Section A answer to the top band?
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Exploring and weighing several views on the stimulus and reaching a reasoned conclusion — not describing one.
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