Unit 5 Text A Lead-in Philosophy The American science fiction movie Matrix(黑客帝国) 求
Text A Lead-in The American science fiction movie Matrix （黑客帝国） Unit 5 Philosophy
Unit 5 Text A Overview Philosophy 1.Learn more about the two philosophical terms: 。mentalism ·behaviorism
Text A Overview 1. Learn more about the two philosophical terms: • mentalism • behaviorism Unit 5 Philosophy
Unit 5 Text A Philosophy Supplementary information 1.Mentalist Mentalists are people who believe in mentalism. Mentalism is a school of philosophy which believes that mental phenomena cannot be explained by physical laws; instead,physical things can be explained in terms of mental things which exist in a real sense.Some mentalists claim that physical objects are merely sensations or perceptions,or that the whole material world is mental in nature
Text A Supplementary information 1. Mentalist Mentalists are people who believe in mentalism. Mentalism is a school of philosophy which believes that mental phenomena cannot be explained by physical laws; instead, physical things can be explained in terms of mental things which exist in a real sense. Some mentalists claim that physical objects are merely sensations or perceptions, or that the whole material world is mental in nature. Unit 5 Philosophy
Unit 5 Text A Philosophy Supplementary information 2.Behaviorist Behaviorists are people who believe in behaviorism. Behaviorism is a philosophical theory which believes that mental states can be analyzed in terms of publicly observable actions;in other words,behavior can be described and explained without reference to mental events or psychological processes.This school of thought tends to emphasize the external sources of behavior and dismiss the internal sources(the mind).The mind hence has no independent significance
Text A Supplementary information 2. Behaviorist Behaviorists are people who believe in behaviorism. Behaviorism is a philosophical theory which believes that mental states can be analyzed in terms of publicly observable actions; in other words, behavior can be described and explained without reference to mental events or psychological processes. This school of thought tends to emphasize the external sources of behavior and dismiss the internal sources (the mind). The mind hence has no independent significance. Unit 5 Philosophy
Unit 5 Text A Overview Philosophy 2.Do Task 1 Critical Reading and Thinking to have an overview of the text. Do computers have minds?-Two contrasting perspectives Mentalists Behaviorists The computer can understand The computer cannot understand things because the computer can Beliefs anything because it does not have conscious minds behave in every way as if it understands Validity All we know about other people's supported by Machines can't think minds we know from common sense what they do You can only decide other There's a difference between Problems of people have a mind by what people and a machine that behaves their beliefs he or she says and does- exactly like people but doesn't their behavior. have any _inner life
Text A Overview 2. Do Task 1 Critical Reading and Thinking to have an overview of the text. conscious minds in every way as if it understands think what they do what he or she says and does inner life Unit 5 Philosophy