consists not of one central processing unit with access to memory but of
a network of 'nodes'. Each node is capable of being in a state of activation.
Content
what a linguistic item or mental state means
Identity theory
the view that phenomenal experience is brain activity
Intentionality
the property some things have have being 'about' something, of 'pointing'
to something
Phenomenal experience
what one is having when one is actually aware of something
Physicalism
The view that the physical is either the only reality or the basic
reality. Here I'm taking it to include the view that the physical
in certain circumstances 'gives off' the smoke of mentality - 'epiphenomenalism'.
thinking is the rule-governed manipulation of representations of propositions
held in the brain
Type/token distinction
If you have the belief that Fodor is a difficult writer, and I have it also,
then you have a token of that belief in your mind or head, and I have another
token of the same belief
von Neumann computer
one which has just one main processing unit which deals with instructions
(which comprise the program one at a time
'wide' belief
a belief which depends on context for its identity
