Searle: Philosophy of Mind, lecture 3

John Searle

Philosophy of Mind, lecture 3

UC-Berkeley Philosophy 132, Spring 2011

MP3s of the entire course:

[dmasiello]

thanks for posting this whoever you are. I am glad to be able to find this information available. Good work.

[ActiveServo]

it took me 45 minutes to comprehend the first 10 minutes. worth it.

[neththom]

Look at that picture. He's still liftin' his arm. Oh yaahhhh...

[salomonherskowitz]

I have ADHD and this is oddly easy to focus in on

[davidfost]

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

[wonderlust_]

I think that comes from a time when they didn't know about neuro-science and how to explain the brain activities (including all the mental states...) so they thought there must be something like a mind...

[sosscs]

what is the reading resources Dr.Searle is giving to his students?

[doasido]

Behaviorism has a negative connotation, but it is more right than wrong. When you take a psychology course the first thing you learn is behaviorism. It has a negative connotation because people want to believe we are more than just puppets on a string. People want to believe we have free will. The reality is this: our genes and internal biological interacts with our environment, we call that “behavior” but the term “culture” can also be used here. Your brain then form a rationalization about your behavior. Our desires conforms to our behavior. Biology > culture > ideology. Searle is right about most things, but when it comes to free will and epiphenomenalism, his brain turns off.

[justbede]

Mind was and still is just a word to refer to human functions that are not visible or physically manifested. Inteligent people decided that because it is gramatically a noun it must be a thing. And go insane over an illusion...

[NOODLEDOC]

If John Wayne was a philosopher, he would sound like this guy.