Sentence examples for mental type from inspiring English sources

A given physical state realizes the relevant conscious mental type by playing the appropriate role within the larger physical system that contains it.

He suspects that a taste for bitter versus aromatic coffee represents a fundamental mental "type" – you are either in one camp or the other, and you will find it very difficult to understand the other's viewpoint.

According to this theory, for every (causally interacting) mental event there are two distinct explananda in need of explanation: an event of a certain physical type and an event of a certain mental type.

In the midst of this Bushian risorgimento comes a book to remind us of the differences between the two mental types.

In any case, it is unfair to hold neural type-individuation to a very fine grain, while adopting a very coarse grain for mental type-individuation.

On her view there are material and mental types, but both fall under a higher neutral type from which the material and the mental are derivative.

The mental properties (or mental types) are causally irrelevant (see Stoutland 1980; Honderich 1982; Sosa 1984; and several others: a review of this literature is in McLaughlin 1989).

Token-physicalism is the view that what occurs in our world is just physical; however, mental types are not identical to physical types.

Russell's view, in contrast, sees the difference between the different mental types as coming in the relation to the same representation.

But such a completely filled-in sketch will contain reference only to neural events, and the mental types with which they are identical will not be so much as mentioned.

The idea seems to be this: Within a future psychophysiology, the fact that mental types are identical to physiological types might be revealed, and the nature of mental states will ultimately be given in terms of psychophysiology, rather then in terms of psychology.