The Physical and the Mental
The Physical and the Mental
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身体和精神
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1972
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Jack H. Ornstein
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Jack H. Ornstein
Different kinds of things can be said of experiences than can be said of brain processes. This indicates, prima facie, that these are different sorts of phenomena or at least that they cannot simply be identified. Because we can call pain “excruciating” or “agonizing” and cannot sensibly make such ascriptions of brain processes,1 we know that pain cannot be simply a process in the brain. Similarly, we can sensibly locate a neural process in a particular place in the brain but not an experience. Since organisms have experiences, we can say that their experiences occur wherever they (the organisms) are, but this does not mean that we can locate them in a particular part of the body (including the brain); no more than we can locate concepts or ideas in a particular part of the body.