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Title: Elizabeth Schier
Time: Mon Aug 17 1pm – 2:30pm (Timezone: Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney)
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Description: 'Connectionism, Content and Mental Causation'
At the heart of the problem of mental causation is the concern that
multiply realisable functional properties do not have causal powers that
are over and above those of their realisers. However a point of fairly
universal agreement that often goes unnoticed is that organised
wholes have properties that are real and distinct from the properties of
their parts. In this paper I argue that the connectionist can avoid the
problem of mental causation, at least for representational content, because
content is only a property of the organised whole that is the firing
network. So for the connectionist, representational
content is real, physical and yet not a property of the entities of
micro-physics.
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