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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Feb-2022 07:14:44 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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   @vidak The mind is what the brain does that provides us with the illusion of self.
   • ~vidak (vidak@zoinks.one)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Feb-2022 07:14:45 UTC ~vidak

     How would you describe the mind, philosophically?

     I feel like a lot of people in the West take the function of the mind as something that ‘represents’ the world inside itself.

     What if it wasn’t this way, though? There are non- or anti-representationalist theories of the mind. They take objectivity to be not accurate representation of the world inside the mind.

     Imagine: the mind is an activity which is not something which is substantial. There is no ‘stuff’ of consciousness. Perhaps the mind has something to do with neurons and brain matter, but really, if we are good empiricists, why not study the empirical effects of the mind?

     The mind is, according to non-representationalist theories, a human process of asking for, and giving reasons in a community trying to solve problems.