HUMAN beings are not born with the knowledge that others possess minds with different contents.
Problem of other minds, in philosophy, the problem of justifying the commonsensical belief that others besides oneself possess minds and are capable of thinking or feeling somewhat as one does oneself.
Thales notes that magnets and, under certain circumstances, amber, can move themselves and concludes that they therefore possess minds.
A contorted tale of possessed minds that runs from the distant past to the near future, this mutant offspring of varsity farce and mystical adventure reads like a complicated dream you half remember before waking.
Note that for Berkeley there was no sense in which material objects themselves possessed minds.
Death and human cruelty are laid bare by this masterpiece, as its scale and shadow daunt and possess the mind.
I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind.
Second, the presence of a valley may hinge on whether we're able to believe that near-human entities possess a mind, as we do.
I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind.
Second, the presence of a valley may hinge on whether we're able to believe that near-human entities possess a mind like we do.
Ellison's answer to Howe was, in a sense, an elaboration of the first paragraph of "Invisible Man," with the hero's demand to be seen as himself, as "flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind".
