1. a. What is Descartes' conceivability b. & divisibility argument? c. Taken together, what do they prove regarding the mind (according to Descartes)?
2. Is the mind the soul for Descartes?
3. Mention one counter to Descartes' theory (p. 227)
4. What is the "closure of the physical"? (p. 227)
5. What is epiphenomenalism?
6. Explain Logical Behaviorism? Which present science is close to this definition?
7. Explain Putnam's Super Spartans thought experiment. What's a counterexample to?
8. Explain Thomas Nagel's bat experiment. What theory is it a counter to?
9. What are the characteristics of mental states according to Nagel?
10. What is functionalism?
11. Answer Section 4.3 Question #1 and Question #3
12. What is David Lewis' Mad Man thought experiement a counter example to?
13. What is Allan Touring test for intelligence. What does it mean? (Read p. 236, 237)
14. What is the event known as singularity? Do you believe it possible?
15. Section 4.5 Question #4.
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