Mental property
A
mental property or a
mind property is a
property of a/the
mind. Mental properties are studied by many
sciences and
parasciences.We may only mention: psychology, cognitive sciences and recently also
systemics.Mental properties are perceived as the results of functioning of a
brain - natural or artificial,therefore they are
abstract objects, not physically observed . Property is a
transitive relation, therefore the mind properties are also the properties of its brain.
Modeling of a mind is based on the
identification of its properties.The fundamental, and, in parallel, most
complex property of a mind is called
intelligence.
There are three main scientific approaches to the study/modeling of mind (properties).
- The primary is classical one, it considers mind as an intrinsic property of human brain only.
- The second is focused on the
engineering research for the development of an abstract/syntetic mind/brain for robots and computers which satisfies before assumed its requested functional properties.
- The third is a most universal research, it dealing with a concept of generalized/universal and synteticmind as a possible or existing property of the Universe. Such research is the common interdysciplinary domain of interest of the
philosophy of mind,
artificial intelligence and different systemic and meta-systemic approches ( for example:
TOGA meta-theory) with a strong contribution of physicists and mathematicians.
Anyway the basic concrete objective of all these research is to develop such model of mind/intelligence which could be implemented on the computer and could be considered sufficiently "human like" or better (?).
A simpe concrete example:If someone pricks you with a pin, you will most likely feel pain. That instance of feeling pain is an instantiation of the property
being in (or a) pain.It is important to distinguish between the predicate 'is a pain' which is a linguistic entity, and the property denoted by the predicate. This becomes important in the
philosophy of mind when the two are confused, especially concerning
intertheoretic reductionism and
ontological reductionism.
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Mental events*
Philosophy of mind*
Qualia...
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