What is a Mind Week 2 - Testing for subjectivity

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2015-08-15

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38612
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Week-2_Video-2_Testing for subjectivity.mp4 (41.69 MB)

Week_2_Step_2.3._Testing_for_subjectivity.pdf (153.66 KB)
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Solms, Mark
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Department of Psychology
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Faculty of Humanities
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In this video, Professor Mark Solms describes the need for an objective criterion for determining whether something else other than ourselves has a mind or not. He examines one proposed criterion, the Turing test and explores an important philosophical question posed by French philosopher René Descartes. This is video 2 in Week 2 of the What is a Mind MOOC.
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psychology
philosophy
Turing test
studying the mind
objective criteria

Reference:

Solms, M. 2015. What is a Mind Week 2 - Testing for subjectivity. [MOOC]. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38612

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